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Benchmarking Employee Benefits: How Do You Compare?

Stratus.HR

Beyond adding more available time to PTO bank accounts, these revisions also include separating out PTO as two distinct categories of vacation time and sick days. While this feels like a reversal from the previous decade’s trend, many companies have learned that employees need designated sick leave to recover from an illness.

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Mandatory vacation time for employees: 6 pros and 6 cons

Insperity

Mandatory sick leave? As more states and cities require employers to offer paid sick leave, companies with PTO policies may find that to stay compliant they must revert to the old system of offering separate banks of time off for vacation and sick days. This is an emerging issue with no clear answers.

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