Changes to PTO Policy Recommended
During its May 2016 meeting, USAC approved a proposal that recommends changes to the university PTO policy. The recommendations were written by the Staff Life Committee and followed an extensive review of Vanderbilt’s current policies as well as an evaluation of its peer institutions.
In its proposal, the committee sites that in July of 2014 “all University Central eligible staff transitioned to a flexPTO program where vacation, sick, holiday, and personal time were combined into one bank. Prior to this transition, the total number of vacation, sick, personal, and holiday days allotted to a brand new, non-exempt employee was 31. That number has since dropped to 24. For exempt employees, that same number dropped from 36 to 29 days.”
In a sample that included Brown, Cal Tech, Carnegie Mellon, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Emory, Georgetown, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Northwestern, Princeton, Stanford, University of Illinois Chicago, Vanderbilt and Yale, Vanderbilt ranked second-to-last for total days off and one of only five that combined vacation, sick, holiday, and personal time.
The proposal — which will be sent to the university administration and HR — recommends the following changes:
- Increase the total number of flexPTO days
- Separate holidays from flexPTO
- Recognize additional University holidays such as Martin Luther King Day, the Friday after Thanksgiving, New Year’s Eve and the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
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