A leave recipient must use accrued annual leave (or sick leave, if applicable) before using donated leave (note that beginning December 2, 1994, an eligible employee may use up to 13 days of sick leave to care for a family member, see Federal Employees Family Friendly Leave Act).
Investors assessing the safety of dividends through historical figures are missing the point. Verizon was only able to pay dividends in 2016 by selling of $6.1 billion assets. Verizon cannot continue to pay their dividends. While I am by no means a dividend investor, I feel inclined to comment on the topic.
Should investors be spooked by the drugmaker's sky-high dividend payout ratio? Nov 16, 2016 at 4:27PM. For Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) shareholders who have come to count on steady dividends, there's one frightening thing that jumps out at anyone who looks: the dividend payout ratio of well over 100%. Pfizer's dividend payments are considerably higher than its earnings.