FBC Newton Employee Handbook (2)

Your maximum accrual is 1x your annual accrual rate. Once you have accrued the number of hours for your length of service (referenced in the chart above), your accrual will stop until you take enough PTO to restart your accrual. PTO USE The use of PTO is NOT required for the company’s paid holidays, paid personal holidays, parental, jury duty, or bereavement leaves. These benefits are separate from the PTO policy; however, acceptable documentation may be required to receive pay under these benefits. PTO is also not required but may be requested for USERRA-conforming military leaves. The use of PTO is required for any other time away from work such as time for rest and relaxation, absences to attend school meetings or personal or family doctor’s appointments, or absences to care for your own or your family members’ illness or injury. The use of PTO is also required for absences during any benefit waiting period such as short-term disability and absences relating to FMLA, whether intermittent or continuous. There are 2 ways to use your PTO: 1) Scheduled PTO 2) Unscheduled PTO (FLEX-Days) Both ways are discussed in the following pages. Scheduled PTO: If scheduled, PTO can be used in blocks of time or in individual days. If scheduled, you may elect to use your PTO in 8, 10, or 12-hour increments. Unscheduled PTO: Each employee will be allowed to use One FLEX Day per quarter (1 st qtr. January 1 to March 31, 2 nd qtr. April 1 to June 30, 3 rd qtr. July 1 to September 30, 4 th qtr. October 1 to December 31). Unscheduled PTO will be charged according to what you were scheduled to work (posted or verbally told). New employees can use unscheduled PTO (FLEX) after 90-days of employment. No employee will be allowed to use more PTO hours than they have available in their PTO bank. Any accrued, unused PTO time will NOT be paid out to you at termination. PTO MEANS MORE FLEXIBILITY TO YOU Our desire is to provide you the flexibility you need and want while curbing unplanned/unscheduled absences. Time away from work is no longer considered as “excused” or “unexcused;” instead, time away from work is viewed as “scheduled” or “unscheduled.” Under this PTO policy and our revised attendance policy, communication is a key component of making this increased flexibility work for you and for the company. Generally, time away from work will be considered as scheduled if your request for PTO is put in writing and approved by management at least two weeks prior to needing the time off. Existing rules about the number of people per shift/line who can be away from the bakery at one time will still apply and you are expected to comply with them.

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