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Does this unlimited PTO still have to adhere to any legally required minimum PTO limits? If not, what prevents them from just not giving their employees any tim
by tavavex 5mo ago
Does this unlimited PTO still have to adhere to any legally required minimum PTO limits? If not, what prevents them from just not giving their employees any time off ever and bypassing the peer pressure part entirely?
- compiler-guy 5mo agoIt does not. Nothing.
- yladiz 5mo agoMaybe in the US, but in countries with minimum holiday time you get the minimum in your contract (or a bit more) and the employee handbook says you have unlimited. Companies can’t shirk their responsibility here legally by saying they give unlimited vacation.
- compiler-guy 5mo ago"Contracted minimum with more at manager's discretion" isn't what people usually mean when they talk about unlimited pto.
- yladiz 5mo agoSure, my point is that the way it works in the US does not work in many other places.
- compiler-guy 5mo agoRight. Places without unlimited PTO get neither the upsides nor the downsides of unlimited PTO.
- jandrewrogers 5mo agoPTO regulations are created by the individual States. None require PTO to exist. They do regulate accrual of PTO if it exists, sometimes with unintended consequences for employees. The origin story is that "discretionary PTO" was created to enable people to take longer vacations than was feasible within the regulatory constraints of accrual-based PTO. It can be abused in other ways but the intent of the people that invented it were employee-friendly.