I have a sticky situation that I want to handle right with my employees but I am not sure if my company's decision is correct.
For the purposes of this scenario assume that all parties involved are exempt salaried.
Due to the rough times, our company has decided to shut down for the week of Christmas rather than just have 2 days off as planned. Out of the 3 additional days that we will have off, the company has decided to pay us for ½ of the time and has required that we use vacation for the remaining 12 hours.
Here is where the questionable part comes in: We are not on a PTO system yet and we are required to use all of our vacation/personal/sick days before the end of the year. Myself and a few of my reports had used up all available time before the closing decision was made. To compensate for that, a new rule was just applied that now allows us to borrow personal days that accrue on Jan 1 (using the premise that vacation days are employee-owned and personal days are employer-owned). My employees are asking me if they are exempt, why are they required to use personal days that have yet to be accrued to satisfy the company shutdown.
I do not desire to file a complaint of any nature; rather I just want to get it right for my staff.
For the purposes of this scenario assume that all parties involved are exempt salaried.
Due to the rough times, our company has decided to shut down for the week of Christmas rather than just have 2 days off as planned. Out of the 3 additional days that we will have off, the company has decided to pay us for ½ of the time and has required that we use vacation for the remaining 12 hours.
Here is where the questionable part comes in: We are not on a PTO system yet and we are required to use all of our vacation/personal/sick days before the end of the year. Myself and a few of my reports had used up all available time before the closing decision was made. To compensate for that, a new rule was just applied that now allows us to borrow personal days that accrue on Jan 1 (using the premise that vacation days are employee-owned and personal days are employer-owned). My employees are asking me if they are exempt, why are they required to use personal days that have yet to be accrued to satisfy the company shutdown.
I do not desire to file a complaint of any nature; rather I just want to get it right for my staff.
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