PTO Best Practices

The Illinois Chamber of Commerce hosts “PTO Best Practices” to provide tips on creating an effective PTO policy that reduces employee absenteeism and addresses both exempt and non-exempt employees. Logistics of creating a strong policy will be addressed such as:

• Creating an economical PTO program
• The key components you need to consider when creating a policy
• The benefits and disadvantages of having a PTO policy that combines vacation time, personal days, holidays, etc. 
• Compliance with federal employment laws including the FMLA, OSHA, ADA and FLSA.
• Carryover from year to year and cash out options in Illinois
• Notices required when forcing exempt employees to use their PTO for enforced furloughs
• Partial-day absence deductions from salaries
• Discussion on the legality of “use it or lose it” policies