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You work in an area where Protected PTO provides you with paid job-protected time away from work when you need it
most—to care for yourself or family members.
What is Protected PTO?
Protected PTO provides paid and absence-protected time away from work when you’re sick, have to
take care of a family member, or for any other unexpected event which causes you to miss work.
Earning Protected PTO
Your total PTO earning rate is divided into two separate buckets: PTO and Protected PTO.
• Some of your earned total PTO will go into your Protected PTO bucket and the rest will go into your PTO bucket.
• Temporary associates only earn Protected PTO.
Using Protected PTO
You can elect to use Protected PTO when you request time off.
When you use Protected PTO for sick, family care, or other reasons under your facility’s attendance policy, the time off
it covers will be deemed an authorized absence and you won’t receive an absence occurrence.
If you don’t have enough Protected PTO to cover your entire time off request, your regular PTO bucket will be used
to pay you for the rest of your requested time off. Any porion of your absence not covered by Protected PTO could
result in an occurrence under your location’s attendance policy.
Life happens. You’ve got suppor for
time off when it does.
Protected PTO for hourly associates (including temporary associates).
Using both types of PTO? Here’s an example:
Meet Bonnie. She has 5 hours of Protected PTO and 3 hours of regular PTO available for use.
She needs time off work to care for her mom who is ill. So, she requests 8 hours of PTO-Family Care. First, 5 hours of her
requested time off will come out of her Protected PTO bucket and then 3 hours will come out of her regular PTO bucket.
The time covered by the 5 hours used from her Protected PTO will not result in an attendance occurrence. However, the time
covered by the 3 hours used from her PTO bucket could result in an occurrence .
Bonnie will be paid for all 8 hours of her request because she had enough combined Protected PTO and regular PTO.
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Protected PTO can also be used for reasons besides sick and family care! If you request to use PTO for a vacation or similar
reason, your regular PTO balance will be used first. If you don’t have enough regular PTO to cover your entire time off
request, your Protected PTO bucket will be used to pay you for the rest of your requested time off.
Unused PTO
Check your PTO balance and request both Protected PTO and regular PTO in the GTA poral.
You will never lose unused Protected PTO! Any unused amount will be carried over to the next plan year.
A porion of your regular PTO balance may be cashed out to you at the end of the plan year in February.
Here’s how it works:
• For full-time associates with 80 or more Protected PTO hours (48 hours par-time), any unused regular PTO hours
are cashed out.
• For full-time associates with fewer than 80 Protected PTO hours (48 hours par-time), these hours plus any regular
PTO hours will carry over to make a combined Protected PTO and regular PTO total of 80 hours (48 hours par-time).
Any extra unused regular PTO hours (over 80 or 48 total) will be cashed out.
You’ll find more resources at:
• One.Walmar.com/PTO
• People Parner at your facility or People Services at 800-421-1362
Attendance is imporant and we worry about you when you aren’t at work.
We understand life happens and you’ll need to take time off. Please speak with your People Parner if you
have additional questions regarding PTO or other options you may have if you need to take time away
from work, including a leave of absence or an accommodation.
These materials do not create an express or implied contract of employment or any other contractual commitment. Walmar may modify this program
at its sole discretion without notice, at any time, consistent with applicable law. Employment with Walmar is on an at-will basis, which means that
either Walmar or the associate is free to terminate the employment relationship at any time for any or no reason, consistent with applicable law.
