Comcast Announces the End of PTO at AT&T Broadband
CWA had urged that the program be eliminated months ago
On October 15, Comcast's Vice-President of Human Resources, Kevin Casey, told workers in Connecticut that Comcast has decided to abolish the PTO (Paid Time Off) plan when the company completes its merger with AT&T Broadband.
The Communications Workers of America (CWA), which raised AT&T Broadband workers' concerns over PTO with top Comcast management several months ago, had urged that the plan be dropped.
Many workers at AT&T Broadband believed that they lost substantial amounts of sick leave when the PTO was implemented. Comcast did not tell the workers whether the new plan would be better or worse than the current plan, but only that it would be abolished.
AT&T Broadband introduced the PTO plan in mid 2001, shortly the corporation added a pension benefit that required the company to put 3 percent of workers' wages into a pension plan for each employee.
Comcast workers do not currently enjoy this pension benefit and there is much concern among AT&T employees that this may be taken away as well.
