I'm trying to understand how Wells implements California's kin care law. I'd thought we'd submit it as sick time. Workday has an option for kin care. When I asked about this because I was going to take a day off to bring my elderly father to a clinic for a one-time medical treatment appointment, my manager told me not to submit it as sick time or kin care but as regular PTO. I did it, but I'm still a little confused and not sure if that's how it is supposed to be done. I could call HR to find out, but I'd like to get a general idea before I make a mistake.
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Even if you use sick time it still comes out of the same PTO bank. The sick hours part of it just means you won’t get a talking to for an unexcused absence. Best advice would be to use as scheduled pto as much as possible so if u do ever have a true sick day where you can’t make it in, you can fall back on the sick time and not get scrutinized for not being at work.
Once your sick time is exhausted, then you can use regular PTO as kincare. Or at least that’s what they told me I had to do as I had used up all my sick days due to surgery (but my sick time bank still showed as full? Weird now that I think about it. Wonder if they have the pool of hours and have those 80 hours banked for sick, but I wouldn’t get the full payout?
Even you submit sick day, it is still out of PTO, no more extra sick day. You can try schedule one sick and watch your available PTO goes down.