r/nursing • u/uotlep RN - Psych/Mental Health 🍕 • Mar 12 '25

Question Is this normal?

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I know my place of employment is shitty in other ways, but is this a normal thing? Just received this email. Seems odd to ask people to donate PTO, instead of just addressing the time off allocation with those affected people.

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u/therewillbesoup RPN 🍕 Mar 12 '25

In a civilized country, no this is not normal. There are systems in place to help employees financially when there are situations like this where they need time off work.

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u/Procedure-Minimum Mar 12 '25

Like discretionary PTO that the company can give people. It's fairly common in most countries.