I posted this to LinkedIn. Any ideas? <\/p>\n
A lot of businesses need to furlough employees during the current madness, and, fortunately, unemployment compensation is very generous right now. But before an employee can get unemployment compensation, he has to burn up (or get paid for) his accrued vacation time. That doesn’t seem right. Is half the workforce going to come back from this mess with no vacation? (Everybody is going to need one!!) Surely some industry with frequent employee furloughs has figured out a better way to handle this. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
How about this? <\/p>\n
What if, rather than accruing vacation time at the company, the company paid vacation into an employee’s vacation fund. Then, when he wanted to take a vacation, he’d be on LWOP as far as the employer is concerned, but he’d pay himself from that fund. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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