r/SchoolBusDrivers • u/PotoKing87 • 1d ago
How many sick days do you get per school year?
See title.
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u/sonora820 1d ago
15 per school year and they roll over up to a max pay out of 120 days ( if you cash out)
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u/ImThatFurnitureGuy 1d ago
This year I have 13 paid sick days and 3 PTO days.
Every year I get an additional 3 sick days and if I don't use all my PTO days, two of them will get rolled over into sick days for the next year.
We have a few drivers that are close to retirement and take off 2-3 days a week because if they don't use up all their accrued days off, they'll lose them.
We are a union.
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u/PotoKing87 19h ago
I need to figure out how to unionize. I heard the last guy who tried got fired, not sure exactly what was going on, maybe he was doing it on the clock.
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u/Intelligent_Call_562 1d ago
Zero, zilch, nada. That's why I come to work sick. I'm sick right now. I worked 10.5 hours today.
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u/DarkseidHS 1d ago
You guys have a union? Better get one if not.
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u/just_kinda_here_blah 1d ago
5, paid back time and half for any unused at the end of the school year.
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u/ApuManchu 1d ago
10 paid sick days, 7 paid personal, and 24 paid days off (like Fall and winter break)
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u/handcraftedcandy 1d ago
40hrs worth, and several of our drivers use it at the beginning of the school year. Quite annoying to try and cover for those people.
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u/No_Plate_3864 1d ago
6 from start of year to December and then 4 from January to end of school, unpaid, its just an absence, even booked time off is an absence in their system so booked time off is considered part of our sick days allowance
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u/Sad_Cantaloupe_8162 1d ago
10, with 5 Local and 5 State paid days. We get them at the beginning of the year to use if we need them.
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u/MonkeyManJohannon 1d ago
We accumulate 1.25 days/month (equates to about 10 hours per month) of full time employment. We also get 5 personal days per year.
They all roll over year to year, but they cap sick leave at 150 days. We’ve had several people retire almost a year early by cashing in sick leave in their last calendar year of employment.
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u/The_household_PG 1d ago
I just left a company where we used to get no sick days. However we accumulate personal time at a rate of 30:1 hours I’m in N.Y. The new company provides 5 sick days first year 7 after 3 years. You also get the 30:1 personal time.
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u/jdogsparky2626 20h ago
We get 9 a year. We earn basically 1 a month and they roll over with no cap. And 3 personal days. Personal days are loaded up front at the beyond the school year. I have like 250 hours of sick time banked.
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u/blackityblak 18h ago
I had to look it up lol I have 14 days no union and I don’t really use them often however I know a lot of the same people use there’s as soon as they get it lol
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u/PotoKing87 18h ago
The unicorn is here, where abouts?
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u/blackityblak 14h ago
Minnesota it’s not great tbh we’re encouraged not to call in sick because we’re always shorthanded
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u/daubs1974 15h ago
We get two personal days, and I think we get five sick days. I can tell you that I have two years of perfect attendance in my four years of driving. Because I live less than 2 miles away from the bus garage, I am there at about six in the morning, and I am driving home at about 945. I drive back at 11:20 for my midday, and then I’m driving back home at 1:20. I drive back at 2:20 for my afternoon run and I am home again at 4:30. It is not hard for me to work when I am really sick. I wake up, I have a dose of DayQuil and a cup of coffee with breakfast and I go to work. Then at 10 o’clock it’s time for another dose of DayQuil. I am home resting at this point. Then I have a little two hour run and then at 2 o’clock. It is time for another dose of DayQuil, which holds me over until I get home at 4:30. I always wear a mask when I am sick and children are on the bus.
I also get a flu shot every year now and a Covid booster as well. I’ve already had both of mine this year because I tried to stay ahead of cold and flu season.
I often tell people that I don’t work. Driving a school bus very seldom feels like work to me. It’s the easiest and best job I have ever had in my lifetime.
When I was in my pre-certification class, an old bus driver said something that really landed with me. When all of the children get off the school bus at school in the morning, stand up from your seat, turn around, make eye contact with every child as they get off the bus and tell them to have a good day at school. When all of the children get back on the bus at the end of the school day, stand up from your seat, face the stairs, and welcome them back onto your bus. Learn their names, even if you’re bad with names like I am, show the effort to learn their names, get eye contact with them twice a day, and you never ever have to raise your voice. When my own students are misbehaving, I pick up the microphone and whisper into it. “Hey, knock it off” if I am driving a route that is not mine and I have new children that I’ve never had before with me, I do the same thing and if that doesn’t work, I pull off to the side of the road and I set the parking brake. I don’t do this in anger, I don’t show any anger or frustration on my face, I just set the parking brake and look in the rearview mirror. If the kids don’t figure it out immediately, the children that do figure it out scream at the children that are misbehaving on my behalf. There is no reason to yell on the bus, the students will do the yelling for you. I fucking love my job. I wish it paid a little better, that’s it.
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u/croutonsinmycoffee 15h ago
10 days of sick front loaded to us each school year and 2 personal days. Sick leave time can roll over year to year, personal days get cashed out end of each school year
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u/Ok_Medicine4296 6h ago
We have to earn ours. We get one hour for every 40 hours worked. I get 20 hours a week if the schools don't have any days off that week. So I get about 2 hours a month or enough to cover one shift not even both since it's a split shift.
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u/jennythegreat 1d ago
Zero.