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Personal Leave: if you are quitting, would you try to use it up before you're gone?
I'm taking two graduate courses (one online, one during the day) this summer, and I've received approval from my supervisor to do this. I will have to use comp time or vacation time, or work an additional hour to make up for this.
This is part of my end plan to quit this job at the end of July, so I can go back to school full time. I want to begin the classes first to see if this is something I'm interested in pursuing before I tell my supervisor that I'm quitting (I may not like it). I've been out of school for three years, and it would be a good career move to get a Master's degree and it would be challenging while my job in this small town is not.
My question is: should I be trying to use up my personal leave now? Or can I use up my personal leave once I quit? Like my last two weeks, use personal leave to not come in? My vacation time and comp time will be cashed out, but not my personal leave. What do you guys think?
Re: Personal Leave: if you are quitting, would you try to use it up before you're gone?
Use your personal leave between now and then. Once you turn in your 2 weeks, they may ask you to leave immediately (w/o pay), or if you request to use the time, they may deny you.
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This.
At my company, if you quit immediately or are fired, you do not receive your PTO paid out. If you leave w/ a 2 week notice or are laid off b/c of budget reasons only (i.e. non-discipline), you get paid out.
I just got 18 paid days cashed out this week when I got laid off!! WOO!!
Yeah, I know what you mean. But like I said in the original post, my company WON'T let you take personal leave as a cash out. Only vacation and comp time.
I'm thinking of taking a day off here and a day off there. There's no way I'll get to use all of it before the end of summer, but I can try to put a dent in it.
Well, asking your benefits person would kind of give you away, but you should figure out how the PTO pay out works. I did both at a very large company ? I used a couple days in my last 4 weeks with the company and then I got my PTO paid out ? for some reason the way the different payment structures work out, I actually got less money than I thought I would be getting (if I took the hours of PTO it was less than the pay for actually worked hours). I called the benefits department at that time and asked what was up ? they gave me a long answer that made my eyes glaze over and topics like work categories and taxing structures.
I work at a very little office now and we have a use it or lose it policy.
I guess I don't understand what the difference is or why there is a difference. At my company, all is PTO. Vacations, sick days, appointments, & some funeral days (there are different offerings depending on your relationship to the person, but if you want more than that, you have to use PTO).
I didn't have to ask an HR person. I used the employee handbook.