galaxygirl17 BSN, RN

My manager informed us recently that we cannot use our PTO for the rest of the year due to a budget issue. Is this a common policy / problem?

Thank you all for your advice. We can transfer up to 160 hours to next year.

It is a hospital. I am a new nurse but "PTO is already budgeted in" as you said is something I've heard others with management and budgeting experience have also said and they are confused as well.

Yes, they are excluded. Yes, the rule you are describing has been in effect every year at this hospital - no PTO from mid-December to mid-January. What I am asking about LENGTHENED the time period to include some of October, all of November, and all...

Thanks! At least I’m not the only one who can’t work after a shift

I was actually wondering if it was something like this

this might sound like a dumb question, but on night shift what's considered your "day off"? I always want to try and workout but I am too tired right after my shift to workout then. But I feel like the irony is that exercise might help alleviate some...

Well regarding holidays that is an even better unit policy- you either work the holiday or the eve of the holiday. So as night shift I work every holiday

Thank you, this is what I was wondering about. I have reached out to HR and they haven’t gotten back to me. just to be clear to those who keep saying about the holiday period, I am not referring to that. We were told (just my unit) that we (just RN’s...

We have a use it or lose it for over 160 hrs. And we also had a major software change where we couldn’t use PTO. This new period of time falls between that and the holiday blackout period

That’s not our policy

This is in addition to the yearly blackout period from mid-December to mid-January