Does anyone offer an incentive for people that do not use their personal/sick days.
Say you get 15 "sick" days in 2016, for every 5 sick days you do not use in 2016 you earn 1 day of vacation in 2017.
I know nothing about HR...I just thing that would be a cool idea.
Personally, I don't care for these types of programs, particularly when you have a real medical problem that is out of your control. For example, I was diagnosed with stage IIIC cancer at 40, I was in treatment for a year. I rarely used any sick time as I continued to work full time during chemo/radiation prior to surgery and heavy (IV infusion) chemo after. Under the type of plan outlined above - because I had to take some sick time for chemo, I'm not eligible to earn an extra 1 day of vacation - yet I worked every single day during 5.5 weeks of chemoradiation and used minimal sick days during 7 chemo infusions.
These types of plans including PTO sound great until you have a very serious medical problem where you need to use periodic sick time, that's when it's important to have that sick time banked away and it shouldn't effect my need to take a vacation, just because I've had to use my time for medical purposes.
No matter what type of accrual system you have, sick & vacation, PTO, etc, you still need to have an attendance policy with defined terms like absence, occurrence, tardy, etc., and outline what the bank feels is excessive. Then make sure you manage it and treat everyone the same.
Just my 2 cents.