Catchall of Vacation, Personal and Sick Days Gaining Favor

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From sun-swept beaches to lost luggage, vacations can be both a blessing and a curse, as any veteran traveler can attest. And there are as many ways for law firms to give vacation benefits as there are vacation destinations, including the amount of time offered, the way it's arranged and various policy issues involved.

An increasingly popular idea: Dropping vacation altogether in favor of "paid time off," or PTO, a catchall that includes personal, vacation and sick days all under the same heading.

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Catchall of Vacation, Personal and Sick Days Gaining Favor

"One of the reasons that not just firms but employers in general went to a paid-time-off standard is because there were some people who chose to perceive their sick leave as additional vacation time, so they would...

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