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Jury Duty: What is your organization’s pay practice during leave for jury duty? Pay full salary Pay difference between salary and jury duty pay Do not pay Other Exempt Employees 504 (58.3%) 236 (27.3%) 84 (9.7%) 26 (3%) Nonexempt Employees 444 (51.4%) 255 (29.5%) 119 (13.8%) (3.6%) Previous Next
Personal Leave Days: What is the number of paid personal leave days granted by your organization per year (exclude paid holidays)? None 1 day 2 days 3 days 4 days 5+ days Exempt Employees 535 (65.1%) 34 (4.1%) 50 (6.1%) 47 (5.7%) 17 (2.1%) 128 (15.6%) Nonexempt Employees 537 (65.3%) 34 (4.1%) 51 (6.2%) […]
Can paid time-off days be carried over from one year to the next? Response Percent Response Count Yes 77.8% 392 No 22.2% 112 Previous Next
What is the maximum number of days that can be accumulated in your organization’s paid time-off plan? 1-9 days 10-19 days 20-29 days 30-59 days 60-89 days 90+ days No limit Exempt Employees 30 (6%) 61 (12%) 140 (28%) 154 (31%) 25 (5%) 32 (6.4%) 41 (8.2%) Nonexempt Employees 31 (6%) 62 (12.4%) 145 […]
How many paid time-off days are allowed per year for employees with 5 years of tenure? Check one for each employee type. 1-5 days 6-10 days 11-19 days 20-24 days 25+ days Exempt Employees 15 (3%) 50 (9.9%) 189 (37.5%) 152 (30.2%) 80 (15.9%) Nonexempt Employees 20 (4%) 49 (9.7%) 200 (39.7%) 158 (31.3%) […]
Does your company offer a Paid Time Off (PTO) plan which provides a bank of days that may be used at the employees’ discretion for vacation, sick time, personal time, holidays, etc.? Response Percent Response Count Yes 58.2% 524 No 41.8% 377 Of those who Have a PTO Program: Which items are included […]
Our recent survey on paid time off reveals that more and more organizations are going the PTO route for offering time off. For holidays, over 90% of respondents are offering New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, and Thanksgiving, and 81% will offer the Monday after Christmas. Fifty-eight percent of responding companies have […]
Yesterday’s Advisor answered three tricky “during leave” FMLA questions. Today, the challenge of suddenly discovered performance issues, plus an introduction to the book users call “The FMLA Bible.” Note: Today’s questions and answers are adapted from an HR Hero publication, Mastering HR: FMLA. What if we discover a previously unknown performance issue while an employee […]
This summer, the U.S. House and Senate took a break from its floundering over debt and deficits to consider a few measures affecting employee benefits. Perhaps it was refreshing, spending at least a little time thinking about something else. Let’s take a look at the latest House and Senate bills that could affect employee benefits. […]
If you find out during the hiring process that an applicant blew the FLSA whistle on his or her former employer, you can probably pull the plug on that applicant, EVEN if you already sent him or her an offer letter (at least in the 4th Circuit). The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled […]