Paid Time Off (PTO) Policy
(DC)

Summary

This template is a Paid Time Off (PTO) Policy that grants employees paid time off from work for a variety of reasons in lieu of an individual vacation policy, sick leave policy, or personal leave policy. This template includes practical guidance, drafting notes, and alternate and optional clauses. This template is intended for private employers. Employers may include this policy in an employee handbook or distribute it as a standalone policy. Its language has been customized to comply with DC and federal law. As a result, the text of this template differs from the non-jurisdictional Paid Time Off (PTO) Policy. For information on drafting paid time off polices, see Paid Time Off (PTO) Policies: Key Drafting Tips. For information on state laws governing paid time off, see Paid Vacation and PTO State Law Survey. For state-specific annotated PTO polices, which include vacation leave, see the Other Leaves column of Attendance, Leaves, and Disabilities State Expert Forms Chart. For a non-jurisdictional policy governing vacation leave only, see Vacation Policy. For a non-jurisdictional policy governing sick leave, see Sick Leave Policy. For a non-jurisdictional personal leave policy, see Personal Days Policy or Personal Leave of Absence Policy.