Summer Shutdowns?

[deanwebb]

Anyone else here being told that there's a mandatory week off during the summer? I'm not complaining about mine, I need the time off. 

[heath]

Uhm, no, never heard of a mandatory week off.  But I'm taking a week off anyway.

[deanwebb]

I've had mandatory time off at manufacturing companies, when they do a Christmas-New Year shutdown of all the lines so that they can run maintenance. Everyone not doing maintenance, go home.

But we get mandatory PTO in the summer and then another one in December here at $VENDOR.

[heath]

Well, I guess I should clarify.  Here at $UNIVERSITY, we do have a "mandatory" week off during the Christmas break.  If you're new enough to not have leave time to cover it, it sucks to be you.  Typically, Christmas Eve and Day are paid holiday days.  The other days you have to use annual leave, comp time if you have it, or take LWOP. There is a catch to that that sucks for the new people.  To get holiday pay, you have to either work or use leave/comp time for the day before the holiday(s).  If you take LWOP, you don't get holiday pay.

[Otanx]

I've had mandatory time off at manufacturing companies, when they do a Christmas-New Year shutdown of all the lines so that they can run maintenance. Everyone not doing maintenance, go home.

But we get mandatory PTO in the summer and then another one in December here at $VENDOR.

My brother started working for a manufacturing company a couple years ago. Like you said they shutdown in the middle of December, and don't start back up till after the first. I had never heard of it before that. I have 'use or lose' PTO, but not any mandatory dates.

-Otanx

[heath]

At least mine keeps accruing over the span of my employment.  Sick, Annual, and Comp time combined, I have over a year's worth of leave saved up.  And, I can cash some of that out at my retirement. 

[deanwebb]

And, I can cash some of that out at my retirement. 

Just gotta stay at the same place to keep that!

I've got quite a lot of unused PTO from when I was a teacher. If I never go back, I never get that back. And I'm OK with that, all things considered.