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[BoredOutOfMyMind]

Originally Posted by ForeverBlessed

I don't think you will get your time back.

Here in IN, you have to use all of your days first just as your employer did. I am thinking that is normal procedure.

The woman across from me in this office fell on ice outside our door this past winter. She came into the office hurt and was sent next door to one of our doctors.. she went on to have surgery on her knees this summer.

She has the same complaint as you, she would like to have her PTO time back that she had to use. HR is the next office over, they've told her that is normal procedure and she will not get her days back...even though it was obviously the office/building managements fault in not cleaning ice from parking lot.

And if on the company property, THAT should have been a Workman's Compensation claim. There is a limit to the time you can file, but she may also have grounds against the faculity faulty in clearing the ice and snow.

[commonsense]

In most companies it is as stated, first they take your sick days, then your vacation days.......and more and more companies are combining the two...ie PTO.

Several years ago I was bit and scratched by a cat. Without a lonnggg story suffice it to say I ended up in the hospital 4 days later. I was very fortunate, in that I had sick time, which means I was still paid. And their policy was any unused sick days at the end of the year, went into another account for more major illnesses.
At the time ,I had worked there for 3 years and used minimal sick time so I had several days in the back up account, which means I was paid for the 10 days I was in the hospital.( Praise the Lord)
They have since changed their format and use the classic PTO system.

Current job has sick days and vacation days, but you earn the days as you go so I am currently in the minus on vacation but will earn my way out. I have 57 hours in sick time....too bad it can't be used for vacaction