(Note that the final number of vacation days includes all federal holidays whether or not you take additional PTO days off around each one.) Below, we outline a few easy ways to hack the holiday ...

If a summer vacation is out of your budget, fall offers more affordable travel opportunities. On that note, you can also have a four-day weekend in November by using your PTO on Monday ...

Lucille said she's found that planning for how the vacation will impact the rest of the team is also a big factor in how receptive management will be to repeated PTO requests. On a similar note ...

Unlimited PTO: Pros and Cons? Key Takeaways: Under an unlimited paid time off policy, employees get to decide how much time to take off, whether for vacation, sick leave or other reasons.

Picture this. Your out of office auto-responder is on. Your laptop is closed. You're ready to step into your PTO completely present, and the only thing on your to-do list is to enjoy the holidays.

These traditional plans included some combination of sick days, personal days and vacation days. In recent decades, however, more companies have adopted the paid time off model, or PTO.

Because FMLA leave is unpaid, the regulations note that employers may require, or an employe may elect, to “substitute” an employee’s accrued PTO for the unpaid FMLA leave. In other words ...