In California, sick time is required and must be separate from PTO. Even places that offer “unlimited” PTO have to give you a separate bank of 5 sick days per year.
That's not really true. You can offer PTO only, but you have to allow it to be used in a way that meets the requirements of CA sick leave law. Source - Am HR in a credit union with PTO. Realistically it's a PITA to do, and we're planning to move to separate Vac/Sick banks soon.
Its true that by law all employee accurre sick time in CA, but its not true that it has to be seperate. Essentially you can combine pto and sick leave as long as its greater than the 2hrs a paycheck specified in the law. I believe the minimum hrs for sick leave for a FT worker is 40 hrs.
Unlimited pto companies get around it by just saying unlimited pto and sick leave. No matter what, unlimited is a scam.
I mean also just colloquially unpaid time off is sick time. I've never taken PTO because I've never been paid time off. Called in sick though. Some days you just can't do it and if they don't give you paid sick time honestly bet you could get the same job somewhere else by the end of the week if they cared enough to fire you
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u/FlowerProofYard 1d ago
Is sick time ever paid out? I’ve never been at company where you could bank sick time, maybe the author confused PTO and sick time.