It's also worth noting that many white collar jobs are instituting "unlimited PTO" which means, by their description, you can take time off as you need.
What they don't specify is that you still need to get this PTO approved and it will only be approved as time allows.
And time never allows.
And since you aren't actually accruing PTO, there's no liability and nothing to pay out if the person leaves the company.
There is a Canadian company that posts on tik tok that has unlimited time off but has a 3 week minimum on it.. Which is actually pretty cool. They actually want to give their staff the time they need.
Most unlimited pto scams are just designed to screw employees.
10 days is the legal minimum for most of Canada. Lots of places offer more though, I was able to negotiate to get 20 days to start at my current workplace and will be getting more at various amounts of years employed there. I also get to bank a weeks worth of OT to take off in the same calendar year, and every other week is a flex day so every other weekend is a long weekend.
Wish it paid better though :(
Edit: Forgot to mention, also 11(min)/13 Stat holidays per year at least in my province.
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u/Kagahami 1d ago
It's also worth noting that many white collar jobs are instituting "unlimited PTO" which means, by their description, you can take time off as you need.
What they don't specify is that you still need to get this PTO approved and it will only be approved as time allows.
And time never allows.
And since you aren't actually accruing PTO, there's no liability and nothing to pay out if the person leaves the company.