Trickier Time-Off Policies as Employers Test New Ideas
The Tribune move, although couched by the company as a way to give workers more flexibility, was seen by its employees as an effort to remove the cost of all unused vacation days from its books.
.. The feedback from her approximately 300 workers has been positive. “They like not having to account to their managers,” ..
.. Younger employees — who may be healthier or not have children and therefore may leave more sick days on the table than older employees or parents — also can view the system as fairer, said Bruce Elliott, manager of compensation and benefits for the Society for Human Resource Management.
On the other hand, employers report that employees tend to come in coughing and sneezing more often under a system that doesn’t have separate sick days, because they don’t want to use vacation time to lie in bed with a cold.
.. But, he acknowledged, more senior workers sometimes have a hard time accepting that “the guy who started yesterday can get the same vacation time as someone who has been there for 25 years,” he said.