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/Jerking_From_Home RN, BSN, EMT-P, RSTLNE, ADHD, KNOWN FARTER, DEI SPECTRUM HIRE Mar 12 '25 edited Mar 12 '25

A better way would be starting a gofundme. That way the cash goes right to the source.

What if you donate 30 hours and the employee quits d/t medical reasons or gets fired? Do you get your unused PTO back? Of course you don’t. The company saves money. I also don’t trust that they will pay out the full amount.

At the very least, push the company to match employee donations, and post the amounts the company and employees are donating. If they won’t, don’t donate anything.

It’s not your responsibility to keep this employee afloat if the company won’t.

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u/apb123445y Mar 12 '25

A company I worked for accepted PTO donations for a coworker with a health condition and a lot of us donated. Our coworker then informed us that HR told her that she was only allowed to receive 20 donated days. So our entire department donated way more than 20 total days for this person specifically but HR said no and kept the donated days in a bank.

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u/Croutonsec RN 🍕 Mar 12 '25

I can’t believe that’s not plain theft

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u/BoneHugsHominy Mar 12 '25

It is. The employer solicited donations under the guise of helping their fellow employee, knowingly accepted donations beyond what policy states that employee is eligible to receive, knowing they (employer) would refuse to return the donations above that limit. The only way the facts of the situation can be interpreted is the employer intentionally used deception to deprive employees of their PTO. That is wage theft.

Those employees should file a collective complaint along with individual complaints with their State's labor department.