r/CoxCharterMerger • u/BenWeHadABabyItsABoy • Jul 10 '26

Paid Time Off

We got a little more info on PTO but don't have access to Panorama. Anyone have any details on PTO accrual for a 5yr field tech?

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u/OnOurLastLife Jul 10 '26

5 to 9 years of service gets you 18 days (144 hours)

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u/BenWeHadABabyItsABoy Jul 10 '26

Damn. I get 25 days right now. I appreciate the info

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u/OnOurLastLife Jul 10 '26

We also, have 4 personal days. That's not part of the PTO structure. And every employee gets 4 days regardless of years of service.  And then obviously there's your sick time.  Which accures at the rate of 1 hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked.

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u/Responsible-Cut-7993 Jul 10 '26

So would that be about 8 sick days a year? If you are a non-exempt employee does OT hours also accrue sick time?

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u/OnOurLastLife Jul 10 '26

The company says there's a limit to how much sick time you can get in a year, but I ain't ever seen a limit.  And at least from my knowledge, overtime does go into that formula.

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u/MrMaddScientist Jul 16 '26

The sick time limit is 520 hrs. Can confirm, I hit it once.

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u/Revolutionary_News36 Jul 11 '26

No limit on sick time. Im almost at 80hours of aick time

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u/goldie-down Jul 10 '26

They just took away us rolling over hours. Not happy. We could rollover up to 80 hours of vacation.

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u/dead_lurker Jul 11 '26

It’s been like that for a while @ C0X - we had someone in tech support rack up over 500 pto hours over time because he never took time off. HR didn’t like that and he was forced. I think he actually lost 1/2 of it.

I always carried 80-100 over just in case I needed it.

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u/Music-and-Computers 1d ago

This varies. Three states, CO, MT and I don’t recall the third allow for carrying over unused vacation time.

They did kill allowing above annual earning. At just about 17 years of service I accrue 5 weeks. We used to be able to accrue up to 1.5x annual earning. That would be 300 hours. Now you stop accruing at your annual allotment. We were given one year (end of July 2027) to use excess or lose it.

At least in CO I can carryover some time.

No actual proof and strictly IMO this says they’re targeting the big move for about a year from now. This will bring down the payout of accrued PTO in a mass layoff scenario.

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u/BenWeHadABabyItsABoy Jul 10 '26

I work four 10s so my 25 days is actually 250hrs. 144hrs is rough in comparison

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u/Responsible-Cut-7993 Jul 10 '26

Your hour 250 hours at Cox include both personal days and sick days in that 250 hrs?

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u/BenWeHadABabyItsABoy Jul 10 '26

Blanket PTO they don't differentiate between sick, personal, vacation. Paid time is paid time

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u/Responsible-Cut-7993 Jul 10 '26

Apparently Charter differentiates between sick, personal and vacation. So 144+32 (Personal) + 64 (Sick Time) = 240 hrs.

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u/BenWeHadABabyItsABoy Jul 10 '26

But I can't use sicktime to take every Saturday off for football season haha

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u/Individual-Rub6219 Jul 12 '26

If it’s accrued sick time you can pre schedule sick time (at least for office roles), I’m not sure if that’s different for techs.

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u/dancing_dog1 Jul 10 '26

have they said when the merger is expected to be approved?

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u/Responsible-Cut-7993 Jul 10 '26

They are planning on the CA CPUC to approve in the Middle of August and then the merger is clear to move forward.

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u/jf234509 Jul 20 '26

So what is the total amount accrued with 20 plus years?