Employee Benefits: Paid Time Off

Anyone willing to share how you handle days off for your on-site team members? Specifically wondering if you have vacation days, sick days, personal days all separated, or in a PTO pool of hours to be used. Do you have a minimum number of hours they can request off? What kind of notice do you require for planned time off? We were considering changing to PTO, but began considering the ramifications of allowing more freedom in taking time off, especially in our one person offices of 100 - 120 units. Would love some input on how others are handling this important topic. Thanks!

I handled it this way:

They got a 1/2 paid sick day a month the first year and 1 paid sick day a month the second year and up.

14 days paid vacation the first year and every year after that they got two additional days. Once they reached 30 days in a year that was the highest they could receive as paid.

Peak time was blocked as a no vacation time. Parents with school age children received preference during summer months. Senority of employment would rule preference of time for parents with school age children.

All leaves for the year had to be submitted in January of the given year. If there was a conflict of time and it could not be resolved, we went with senority of years worked at the property.

This was outlined when they first came to work and if they were not in agreement with the system, then we moved on to the next candidate for the job.

We ensured there was always and enough staff on hand to take care of the customers. I kept an attendance chart which stayed on file in the case of any disputes or claims.

Worked fine for us and I only had one case where I noticed a pattern of one person that got sick before vacation or long weekends. So I had to bring her in and talk about it. After the talk everything went fine.