The company I worked for for almost 25 years allowed vacation time to accrue. They had a system I'd never seen before and haven't since. Each week when you got paid the stub showed how much vacation time (and sick time) you had accrued. So if you were eligible for 80 hours a year (first 5 years of service) you actually accrued a little over 1.5 hours a week. They allowed you to carry it over. There were several of us who built up substantial accounts. You were not allowed to take more than two weeks at a time without asking and arranging for backup coverage. Also, each department had a calendar on the wall where you wrote which weeks you wanted. Two people could not take the same week. This was not a big burden in a dept with 5 or 6 people. We would always accommodate someone who had some special event pop up unexpectedly. This arrangement ended in 2008, when the company merged several divisions in an effort to control costs. After that we were able to carry just 40 hours into the following year. We all got rather large checks for the hours over that limit. But going forward you could only carry forward the 40 hours and would lose any time above that. The company was very good about reminding people to use their time. I was sorry to see that program end, I was using it as a retirement account! As Progmatic mentioned above, it was when the original founder got old and developed alzheimers and the CFO took over and wanted to sell the business that the program ended.
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