Should PTO hours accrue per hours worked or hours paid?

[Anonymous]

I receive 1 hour PTO for every 30 hours. My contract does not specify if they accrue per 30 worked or 30 paid. If there is a week with holidays or my employers are gone for a week I obviously work less but am paid my base salary. Everything I find for most companies state that it's accrued per hours paid. Is this how it should be calculated? How do the DCUMers do it?

[Anonymous]

Hours paid here. MB models it after her work so basically for every pay period (2 weeks), I get about 8 hrs of PTO. This PTO is then used for vacations, sick days, and holidays. So this coming week I have Tuesday off for Veterans Day. I will still get my Full PTO reflected on next weeks paycheck, but I'll also have 8.5 hrs deducted from it due to the PTO.

Sorry it's a little confusing to explain. But yes, you get PTO for hours paid.

[Anonymous]

That should say due to the holiday, not PTO! It's been a long day so far!!

[Anonymous]

hours worked is how it works in most jobs and I wouldn't expect anything else. Why should you accrue PTO for a vacation or sick day you took? Or for a holiday you didn't work? You accrue PTO based on hours worked, not on hours not worked.

[Anonymous]

I do hours paid, but that's just to make it easy on me. 1/2 day (4 hours) per pay period. This means that all my nannies have ended up with about 1 extra paid day off due to starting or ending the job in the middle of a pay period. Over the course of a couple of years, I don't care that much.

[Anonymous]

Ugh. It would be a big hassle to track accrued vacation. We grant it as available from the start of the new contract year.

[Anonymous]

I do hours paid, but that's just to make it easy on me. 1/2 day (4 hours) per pay period. This means that all my nannies have ended up with about 1 extra paid day off due to starting or ending the job in the middle of a pay period. Over the course of a couple of years, I don't care that much.

+1.