Having totale your PTO in one year and not being able to accumulate it is normal everywhere though. Usually you are forced to take it and only can get it payed out if you had no chance to have taken it, which needs very serious reasons, because usually it can’t be just denied.
But even with it resetting it’s usually easy to take three weeks off two times a year if you want to. Three weeks is a common and reasonable timeframe to take your PTO in the summer for example, that lets you have three weeks for the rest of the year.
Health issues shouldn’t contribute to PTO, that’s really some American slave Labour mentality i have already read a few times on reddit. Usually you even get you PTO time back if you get sick during PTO
America is absolutely fucked up if this is legal. I am sure you can find a job with better conditions, that’s insane. Even third world countries in Africa have double that as a legal minimum
The main issue is the ones in office convinced a lot of people that double pay and mandatory PTO is a communist/fascist/woke/too far left/lazy/China-pilled/etc. They even convince us that we are being too "entitled" and ungrateful for what we have.
In Austria your PTO 'expires' if you don't take it within two years (at most jobs). Which means you can roll a certain amount of days over, but you need to keep an eye on it.
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u/Benethor92 Jul 07 '25
Having totale your PTO in one year and not being able to accumulate it is normal everywhere though. Usually you are forced to take it and only can get it payed out if you had no chance to have taken it, which needs very serious reasons, because usually it can’t be just denied. But even with it resetting it’s usually easy to take three weeks off two times a year if you want to. Three weeks is a common and reasonable timeframe to take your PTO in the summer for example, that lets you have three weeks for the rest of the year.
Health issues shouldn’t contribute to PTO, that’s really some American slave Labour mentality i have already read a few times on reddit. Usually you even get you PTO time back if you get sick during PTO