I'd like to know what your different companies policies are, feel free to share if you can't offer help. My hubby has been at his company for 3 1/2 years. It's a smallish company (about 50 people) but has been in business around 40 yrs. They're also really cheap, cutting corners wherever possible (I don't know details would shed any light or whether they even factor).
Hubby is a valued employee with four raises and two promotions in his time there to his current salaried position (started hourly). He's now an equal to his former bosses and the boss to his former co-workers (stated I guess as sort of a gauge of his (very) limited clout.)
The problem is thus: this company starts the vacation days on the hire date. Hubby happened to be hired on Augest 4th. and as some of you (at least in the northern mid-west) know, the first week of Aug. is the cusp of fall. This means we can't really schedule any vacation every year until the freakin' summer is almost done with.
My question to everyone: Do you have any suggestions, creative or straight-forward, my hubby could pose to his bosses to circumvent the "hire date" clause to reset it to Jan. 1st.? Losing vacation days for a year would be preferable to not having them reset until the end of the vacation season for the rest of his tenure there.
As an aside, I've just returned to the TFP after a long absence, so Hi anyone who remembers me!
Love,
Ali