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Many hourly employees get paid time off.

• BugsJustFindMe 3y ago
  Not most though, and the lowest earners (possibly obviously) get the least. But thanks, I've updated my previous comment.
• synergy20 3y ago
  Many companies have both PTO and Sick-day in parallel, each is about 2 weeks to start with.
  • fkyoureadthedoc 3y ago
    In my previous career before I worked for Big Enterprise who doesn't track sick days, my job had (for employees under 5 years) a separate pool of 2 weeks "vacation", 5 days "sick", and 2 days "personal" time off. In a very controversial move they changed policy to pool them together in just "PTO" of two weeks. Probably a pretty common story. Lot of people were mad at losing the dedicated sick time because they would cash out their unused vacation at the end of the year.
• shkkmo 3y ago
  US federal laws do not require employers to offer paid sick leave. In my experience, paid time off is pretty rare on the lower end of the hourly pay scale.
  • greenyoda 3y ago
    But some states, like NY, have laws mandating paid sick leave for most workers: https://www.ny.gov/new-york-paid-sick-leave/new-york-paid-sick-leave https://www.ny.gov/new-york-paid-sick-leave/new-york-paid-si... The only exception is for employers with 4 or fewer employees and net income less than $1 million (but they must still provide 40 hours of unpaid sick leave).