Thread regarding Wells Fargo & Co. layoffs

@cw what was supposed to be learned from the pandemic?

@a2 I came here for this comment. Before trying to say anything in WF is illegal you better believe they had their lawyers involved in making sure everything was on the up and up. I was here when they made that transition. I actually prefer the one bucket as a person that hardly gets sick. No one wants to fake sick to use their sick time.

If you’re in a state like NY, Workday has a separate bank of time for sick leave, PTO, personal holidays, community service. You all are required to have designated sick days by law, while employees in states like NC don’t even have the sick day designation of time in WD. Same with carryover time from YtY. Some states have different rules about how companies must allow you to carryover your PTO. Essentially WF only provides sick days if they’re in a state where mandated by law. Otherwise, they expect you to use your PTO…

They learned nothing from the pandemic.

You've finally figured it out! Not the dozens of WF lawyers and HR experts who have been managing WFs presence in NY for decades. You should go post your revelations on FB under your own name. You'll be a hero!

It’s not about giving more or less time off, it’s about classification. States like New York and California have specific laws requiring employers to provide designated sick time. Even if a company offers a general PTO bank that you can use however you want, they still have to separate out a portion as “sick time” to comply with those laws.

In this case, the company is actually offering more PTO overall than what the law requires, they just need to clearly label a portion of it as sick time for legal reasons. These regulations are mainly aimed at employers who don’t typically provide paid sick leave.

Also, sick time is considered protected time. So if your group has an attendance policy, absences that are properly classified as sick time generally can’t be used against you.