Benchmark allows staff to carry of 80 hours.

We use hiring date as the "year" vs the calendar year.

Than- something we've done is to allow any hourly staff to submit a request and be paid out any time over the 80 they can carry over.

We all need the mental health break of vacation- but if that hasn't been possible during their anniversary year, they get paid out the hours.

Salaried staff do not have the option to be paid out the unused hours over 80.

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From: opra_members@opra.simplelists.com [opra_members@opra.simplelists.com] on behalf of Than Johnson [TJohnson@CRSI-OH.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 12:23 PM
To: Straley, Shannon
Cc: Tim Menke; Anita Allen; opra_members@opra.simplelists.com
Subject: Re: Question for ListServ

In this day of workforce crisis,
it’s begs for consideration of policy changes. Many providers cannot approve vacation use because of staff shortage.
If management causes staff to lose earned vacation hours because of ‘non approval of vacation requests’ then staff dissatisfaction can lead to resignations that cause further erosion of available staff, higher overtime , labor organizing potential, and quality challenges.
It may actually save funding by offering to pay staff their accrued vacation/pto hours (higher carryover limits also) rather than pay overtime for staff replacement of staff taking vacation???
A interesting discussion that has been front burner for many years but accentuated by a deep, extended workforce crisis.
Thanks
Than

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On Jun 19, 2019, at 12:08 PM, Straley, Shannon <sstraley@marimorindustries.org<mailto:sstraley@marimorindustries.org>> wrote:

We allow staff to carry over one week. If they have more than that left come December 31 – they lose those hours.

Shannon

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Our policy is “use it or lose it”.  Not allowing hours to carry-over into the next year alleviates the problem.

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I have another question that maybe you or the ListServ can answer. We have not had a policy in place, internally, for vacation hours. We have several employees that have hundreds of hours. I was wondering if anyone in the OPRA group has a good policy for vacation hours and putting a cap on the amount an employee can have. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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