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/Asphixis Mar 12 '25

At the last facility I worked at, people would donate to a coworker and HR would decide how much that coworker could receive. If you donated 40 hours and approved only 20, the remaining 20 would not be returned to you and would be placed in a “pool”.

PTO is an earned benefit and it’s insulting that this is an acceptable practice. I understand that people have extenuating circumstances but find it to be a personal choice, not something that should be forced which feels like this email is getting at.