bcwisher

Hi All, I wonder if people can help me.

My company gives me 16.6 hours per monthly pay period (for vacation and sick etc)

Before shooting myself in the foot - can anyone tell me whether you have to accrue the time before spending it? Say I want 2 weeks off in April - can i do that? (I'll be a good few hours short if I do have to accrue it)
Some people are saying no but I don;t see it written anywhere in the company manuals etc.

What has been people's experiences?

Rich_007

bcw,

MOH works in public sector in BC, hols and sick pay are 'earned' through time served in current year, i.e. both are pro-rata'd in first year.

Rich.

Judy in Calgary

My experience (in the private sector in Alberta) has varied. Some companies have stuck strictly to their accrual policies. Other companies have let a new employee take a week off during the summer before he/she has strictly speaking been entitled to it. But this has been at the discretion of the individual manager and has been viewed as a big favour.

At some companies at which I've worked, employees have been allowed to take vacation only after they've worked a full year. They have not even been allowed to take the vacation that they'd accrued up to, say, six months.

So paid time off before you've actually earned it is definitely not something I would take for granted.

Also, the information you provided is confusing. It would help if you distinguished between vacation pay and sick pay. Also, it would help if you specified what a regular shift was. A given number of hours means one thing if a regular shift is considered to be 8 hours, 7.5 hours or whatever.