I too have a June anniversary. Right now I am trying to use 45 hours over my 80 by this anniversary. It is putting my hospital at an inconvenience as I have to take several random days off.Being the only full time doctor and he only one who does surgery, we have had to reschedule surgeries and appointments which decreases our ability to deliver on our promise. I also too have to use this PTO before my kids are even out of school making g it difficult to vacation. We need a change to this policy.
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Emily Belyeu
4 years ago
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Anonymous
6 years ago
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Sarah Harmon
6 years ago
Controlling our own PTO is crucial to our wellbeing.
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Katherine Gillikin
6 years ago
As a mom, this has become a huge factor in thinking about a second child. For my first I had the PTO available to spend additional weeks at home and then at part time to ease the transition.
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Anonymous
6 years ago
My kids are older, but my time off at maternity leave would have been unpaid for a majority for one of my kids if this policy had been in effect at that time. 200 hour cap is great, and I carried a lot at one time, but just the peace of mind of available hours was good for me.
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Ashley Dzubak DVM
6 years ago
My anniversary date is mid December, and I lost pto hours before leaving for a vacation a couple days after my anniversary date: it sucks that I lost hours before I could use them. The 200hr limit is fine but I don’t think I should have to lose my hours because I’m saving vacation time for special trips.
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Anonymous
6 years ago
If this had gone into effect before I had children it would have affected me greatly as I relied on my PTO for quality paid time off after my kids were born.
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Jessica Dinham
6 years ago
My anniversary date is March which forces me to use banked PTO in the winter which is not when I would like to use it. I would prefer to bank some additional hours to use in the summer with my family, especially in Minnesota when we have a limited amount of desirable weather. Luckily I had my son prior to this change, or I would not have been able to afford to take the time I needed with him after birth unless he happened to be born the correct time of year. This new policy is not mutual.
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Anonymous
6 years ago
I am new to Banfield and was dismayed when I learned of this policy change.
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Lauren Ahlemeyer
6 years ago
Being able to decide when and how I take my PTO is far better for my mental health and well-being then requiring me to take PTO when I don’t need to before it expires. Approval for PTO should be handled by the chief of staff based on hospital needs to make sure our patients/clients are taken care of while our associates get the time off they need.
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KellyAnn Bensman
6 years ago
While I understand this new policy was to help with work life balance I am just frustrated with the policy. In my market doctor coverage is not always easy to find so I am ocassionally made to feel guilty for asking to use pto. I already try to plan expanding my family around our hospital's busy season and this makes it nearly impossible for me to save pto to help me afford my time off for maternity leave. Also, based on my anniversary date (early April) and the pto buy back date it is impossible for me to ever do to buy back and use the remaining pto to get me back to the 80 hours that will roll over due to lack of dr coverage. I do appreciate what Banfield is trying to do for the associates well being but I would have hoped to have used my PTO as I see fit.
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Heather Molander
6 years ago
As a COS try to staff hospital while others need to take their PTO is a challenge already, made now much more difficult to watch anniversary dates. ( in addition)
I want no one to lose their floaters or PTO because they work incredibly hard and deserve it!
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Emily Barquet
6 years ago
I had my first baby in October of 2018, about 10 days after my anniversary date. Luckily, this policy took effect in 2019 or I would have lost 120hrs of PTO that I had saved up specifically for maternity leave. This is incredibly unfair to people trying to plan plan parental leave or really anything that can’t be scheduled around our anniversary dates. I was lucky. But, I feel terrible for all of the employees (not only doctors) that have lost PTO that they earned due to this new policy. I have also seen situations where doctors take PTO they don’t really want or need because they are about to lose it. That in no way is beneficial to a work life balance and has left hospitals dark unnecessarily.
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Mary Girton
6 years ago
I had my son 2 months after my anniversary and had to go on unpaid leave just to be able to take 11 weeks of maternity leave- didn’t even get to make it to the desired 12 weeks. Otherwise I only had enough PTO to cover 6 weeks which wasn’t even long enough for him to get his first round of vaccines. In the long run it would cost Banfield more if I had to come back to work prior to his vaccines as I would just end up out of work with a sick child instead. Unfortunately I started working with Banfield prior to the new PTO hours and witnessed a fellow doctor take 3 months of maternity no problem, whereas I was scrambling for PTO coverage and being stressed out over how to work it out instead of being able to enjoy my maternity leave with my newborn. The new PTO policy is very disengaging.
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Kelly McDonald
6 years ago
I’m concerned with the new policy that it could affect future maternity leave or summer vacations with my child.
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Anonymous
6 years ago
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Since I am COS at my hospital, I was not able to use enough PTO before my anniversary date due to having to support other DVM's time off and keeping up doctor days to get patients in when needed. I lost at least 2 weeks worth of time off due to this policy, which is very disengaging when I already give so much of my time and energy.
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Livvy Jones
6 years ago
This policy also prevents people who's anniversary is right before the sell back date from ever being able to sell hours back because we will never meet the minimum!
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Lynda Perez
6 years ago
When I had my child I was able to take a few extra weeks of maternity leave because I had PTO saved up. With this policy mothers are trying to plan when to have their babies to maximize their PTO, their fertility doesn't always cooperate leaving mothers to return to work earlier than they would like or deserve. The reason given for this policy was to encourage employees to use their PTO but having a cap at 200 hours accrual accomplished this just the same without mandating when people could take their vacations. The majority of DVMs started in May and June meaning that they will always need to use their PTO before their school aged kids are on summer break and available for a family vacation. If we are going to keep the current policy I propose giving the entire year of PTO days on the anniversary date instead of accruing over the year.
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Anonymous
6 years ago
This policy affected me greatly during my maternity leave last year. I had to randomly use my PTO while I was pregnant, even though I did not need it or want to use it, before my anniversary date instead of being able to use it 2 months later to fund my maternity leave. I have been with this practice for 10 years and never realized how mother and family unfriendly it could be until this policy was put in place.
I too have a June anniversary. Right now I am trying to use 45 hours over my 80 by this anniversary. It is putting my hospital at an inconvenience as I have to take several random days off.Being the only full time doctor and he only one who does surgery, we have had to reschedule surgeries and appointments which decreases our ability to deliver on our promise. I also too have to use this PTO before my kids are even out of school making g it difficult to vacation. We need a change to this policy.
Dvm hospital 1095
555
Controlling our own PTO is crucial to our wellbeing.
As a mom, this has become a huge factor in thinking about a second child. For my first I had the PTO available to spend additional weeks at home and then at part time to ease the transition.
My kids are older, but my time off at maternity leave would have been unpaid for a majority for one of my kids if this policy had been in effect at that time. 200 hour cap is great, and I carried a lot at one time, but just the peace of mind of available hours was good for me.
My anniversary date is mid December, and I lost pto hours before leaving for a vacation a couple days after my anniversary date: it sucks that I lost hours before I could use them. The 200hr limit is fine but I don’t think I should have to lose my hours because I’m saving vacation time for special trips.
If this had gone into effect before I had children it would have affected me greatly as I relied on my PTO for quality paid time off after my kids were born.
My anniversary date is March which forces me to use banked PTO in the winter which is not when I would like to use it. I would prefer to bank some additional hours to use in the summer with my family, especially in Minnesota when we have a limited amount of desirable weather. Luckily I had my son prior to this change, or I would not have been able to afford to take the time I needed with him after birth unless he happened to be born the correct time of year. This new policy is not mutual.
I am new to Banfield and was dismayed when I learned of this policy change.
Being able to decide when and how I take my PTO is far better for my mental health and well-being then requiring me to take PTO when I don’t need to before it expires. Approval for PTO should be handled by the chief of staff based on hospital needs to make sure our patients/clients are taken care of while our associates get the time off they need.
While I understand this new policy was to help with work life balance I am just frustrated with the policy. In my market doctor coverage is not always easy to find so I am ocassionally made to feel guilty for asking to use pto. I already try to plan expanding my family around our hospital's busy season and this makes it nearly impossible for me to save pto to help me afford my time off for maternity leave. Also, based on my anniversary date (early April) and the pto buy back date it is impossible for me to ever do to buy back and use the remaining pto to get me back to the 80 hours that will roll over due to lack of dr coverage. I do appreciate what Banfield is trying to do for the associates well being but I would have hoped to have used my PTO as I see fit.
As a COS try to staff hospital while others need to take their PTO is a challenge already, made now much more difficult to watch anniversary dates. ( in addition) I want no one to lose their floaters or PTO because they work incredibly hard and deserve it!
I had my first baby in October of 2018, about 10 days after my anniversary date. Luckily, this policy took effect in 2019 or I would have lost 120hrs of PTO that I had saved up specifically for maternity leave. This is incredibly unfair to people trying to plan plan parental leave or really anything that can’t be scheduled around our anniversary dates. I was lucky. But, I feel terrible for all of the employees (not only doctors) that have lost PTO that they earned due to this new policy. I have also seen situations where doctors take PTO they don’t really want or need because they are about to lose it. That in no way is beneficial to a work life balance and has left hospitals dark unnecessarily.
I had my son 2 months after my anniversary and had to go on unpaid leave just to be able to take 11 weeks of maternity leave- didn’t even get to make it to the desired 12 weeks. Otherwise I only had enough PTO to cover 6 weeks which wasn’t even long enough for him to get his first round of vaccines. In the long run it would cost Banfield more if I had to come back to work prior to his vaccines as I would just end up out of work with a sick child instead. Unfortunately I started working with Banfield prior to the new PTO hours and witnessed a fellow doctor take 3 months of maternity no problem, whereas I was scrambling for PTO coverage and being stressed out over how to work it out instead of being able to enjoy my maternity leave with my newborn. The new PTO policy is very disengaging.
I’m concerned with the new policy that it could affect future maternity leave or summer vacations with my child.
Since I am COS at my hospital, I was not able to use enough PTO before my anniversary date due to having to support other DVM's time off and keeping up doctor days to get patients in when needed. I lost at least 2 weeks worth of time off due to this policy, which is very disengaging when I already give so much of my time and energy.
This policy also prevents people who's anniversary is right before the sell back date from ever being able to sell hours back because we will never meet the minimum!
When I had my child I was able to take a few extra weeks of maternity leave because I had PTO saved up. With this policy mothers are trying to plan when to have their babies to maximize their PTO, their fertility doesn't always cooperate leaving mothers to return to work earlier than they would like or deserve. The reason given for this policy was to encourage employees to use their PTO but having a cap at 200 hours accrual accomplished this just the same without mandating when people could take their vacations. The majority of DVMs started in May and June meaning that they will always need to use their PTO before their school aged kids are on summer break and available for a family vacation. If we are going to keep the current policy I propose giving the entire year of PTO days on the anniversary date instead of accruing over the year.
This policy affected me greatly during my maternity leave last year. I had to randomly use my PTO while I was pregnant, even though I did not need it or want to use it, before my anniversary date instead of being able to use it 2 months later to fund my maternity leave. I have been with this practice for 10 years and never realized how mother and family unfriendly it could be until this policy was put in place.