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Sir/Ma’am,
Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback to BTS. Your insights mean a great deal to us. All thoughts and recommendations arm us with information ensuring we maintain a great company culture and gives us a gauge to evaluate our performance and support to employees. We would like to take this opportunity to address a few of your concerns.
PTO: You are correct. BTS does not provide PTO for our deployed employees. Instead, we provide all deployed employees with the opportunity to take up to 40 days Leave without Pay (LWOP). With that, we incentivize all deployed employees by providing a $7,500.00 bonus at the end of a 365 day deployment if they do not use more than 20 days of the authorized 40 days of leave. We also provide a $500 dollar stipend to all employees to assist in the cost of their tickets. In total, a deployed employee can earn up to $8,000.00 towards leave, significantly offsetting the cost of LWOP.
EOC flight to HOR: If an employee is deployed for 365 days or more, BTS does reimburse for their trip from CRC to their HOR. Once an employee arrives at their HOR, they are required to send their flight receipt/itinerary to the PM/PMO. The PM/PMO will submit this document to finance for reimbursement and the funds are deposited when possible. If you were unaware of this, we recommend that you contact the BTS PM/PMO for potential reimbursement.
Thank you again for your service to the Mission and the Nation and we wish you the best of luck going forward.
