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Paid Time Off (PTO)

AEO recognizes the need for our Associates to receive time off for vacation,
illness or personal time. To meet this need, AEO provides you with paid time off
(PTO). PTO is a pool of time to be used at your discretion under the guidelines
administered by your supervisor.

The summary below outlines the benefit available to you. For a complete copy of the
PTO policy, please visit the Policy & Procedure Guide in The Hub or visit Policy Tech,
if applicable.

NEED TIME PTO hours are accrued bi-weekly. Accrual is a method used to determine the
amount of PTO you have earned. Under this method, you earn a particular number of
AWAY BUT PTO hours dependent upon your position, length of consecutive years of Full-Time
service, and the number of eligible hours worked each week. You will be eligible to
HAVEN’T accrue PTO immediately upon hire or transfer to Full-Time status. You are eligible
to use accrued time after your 60th day of Full-Time service.
ACCRUED

ENOUGH NOTE: Only non-exempt Associates are permitted to sell back unused PTO

after meeting a 5-year service requirement. Those with 5 – 9 years of
TIME? service can sell back up to 40 hours; those with 10+ years of service
can sell back up to 80 hours. Exempt Associates will forfeit any unused
PTO at the end of the plan year (unless otherwise required by law).
With supervisor approval,
you are permitted to borrow
PTO. Your balance can be NOTE: New Associates may earn less the first year because of fewer pay periods
negative up to a maximum worked. If hired after December 1st, PTO hours will automatically be
of 80 PTO hours. PTO bor- carried over to the following year.
rowing cannot exceed 80
PTO hours and all negative Locating Your PTO Balance
balances will carry over into NOTE: The 2022 PTO plan year starts on February 13, 2022 and ends on Saturday,
the new plan year if you do February 11, 2023.
not earn back enough time.
Associates must repay AEO Associates are responsible for keeping track of their used and unused PTO. If you
if they terminate prior to need assistance, your PTO balance can be obtained in the following ways:
earning the time already • KRONOS (Stores, DCs, and Corporate [where applicable]).
used.
• Your pay stub.
• Reaching out to your department’s staff assistant, the Payroll Department,
or the Benefits Department.

Each new plan year, you start with a zero balance in your PTO accrual bank and begin
accruing hours for the new plan year. Unused PTO does not carry over from year to
year (unless required by applicable law) and will not be paid out if not taken during
that year (unless you are a non-exempt Associate and have met the service require-
ment). If you have borrowed PTO time and have a negative PTO balance at the end of
the plan year, your negative PTO balance will roll over to the new plan year. You will
need to earn your way out of the negative balance.

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