Comments on: Corporate Leave Policies?

By: scott

scott — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:02:32 +0000

Midsized software consulting company.
Two weeks vacation, 5 sick/jury duty/bereavement days.

By: J Deville

J Deville — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 04:21:15 +0000

Start at 3 weeks vacation, 2 weeks sick leave, 2 days personal leave, 1 month paid paternity (don't know maternity), and can take two more unpaid. This is for Microsoft in case you are wondering

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:27:51 +0000

Very large software company

2 weeks of sick time (renews every year, but doesn't carry over), 3 weeks of vacation time (does carry over), 8 company holidays, 2 personal holidays (don't carry over). Don't know about paternity leave.

By: Jason The Saj

Jason The Saj — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:25:54 +0000

I guess I forgot to add the following…and pulling this from my mind.

– We get equivalent of three weeks vacation/personal time. 5 sick days.
– Family Fun Day, floating vacation day + $250 to spend time with family and loved ones.
– Birthday off (requires a community service activity)
– Sabbatical at 5/10/15 yrs (with 15th having a $5K travel alotment). I think they're 2 weeks. Though may be 4 weeks at 15 yrs.
(requires a community service activity)
– Summer Schedule (not policy) but they let the entire company flex off every other Friday of the summer by making up the time in the preceding two weeks.

By: Jason The Saj

Jason The Saj — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:18:07 +0000

Well, when I started with my company I had a bit of a predicament. My wife was due to have a baby in just a few months...

State law mandates a granting of unpaid leave time I believe. However, that's ONLY if you've worked at the business for over a year. I had only worked for 2 months.

Worse...I didn't even have any vacation time accrued yet. But I had expressed at part of my hiring that I would need the week off after the baby.

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Now my company is very nice. They let me have the week off unpaid. But applied a couple of sick days I had accrued toward the week. And I had done a conference and flown on a weekend. So they counted that as a paid day. So I only lost two days of pay.

They also rocked our socks off with a baby shower, including a high chair and 1/2 dozen other gifts.

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That said, if you have worked for a company over a year. They are legally required to grant you unpaid leave time for medical issues. I believe that includes for children but I am not sure.

(But if Stacey were sick and you had to take care of the newborn, I believe if you've been legally employed by your employer for over a year you are eligible for the medical leave.)

That said, most good companies should understand and work with you.

By: Hank Gay

Hank Gay — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:55:23 +0000

medium-sized software company
3 weeks paid vacation + 5 sick days, no paternity, 6-week sabbatical every 5 years

By: jonathan

jonathan — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:47:35 +0000

We're a small 5 person shop. Our leave policy is 2 weeks paid vacation.

For paternity leave, I took 5 days paid leave though there isn't/wasn't a defined limit or policy.

Since I normally work from home 60-80% of the time, I've been extremely comfortable with these policies (or lack thereof). The best part is the two-month window around the birth of our child during which I've worked from home 100%.