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Company A: Vacation could be carried over to following year or receive check for weeks not taken.
Company B: Purchased Company A's productline/services. Tried to schedule vacation throughout year.
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Vacation Time/$ Lost
posted at 7/14/1999 1:34 AM EDT
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Company A: Vacation could be carried over to following year or receive check for weeks not taken.
Company B: Purchased Company A's productline/services. Tried to schedule vacation throughout year. Difficult due to new training on new products. Additional workers never hired. Supervisor never approved vacation time- inconvenient, no back-up, still "looking" for new people. At end of year Company B now said the vacation time was gone- would not carry over weeks to next year or pay. (Five vacation WEEKS gone! Five weeks pay gone!) Supervisor left Company B. Top boss explained many lost vacations, tough but no options available. Top Boss left Company B, too. Work in Michigan, main office out of state. Question: Is this legal? If I should leave Company B, shouldn't Company B or Company A owe me this vacation pay? Is there any hope that Company B may backtrack on these lost vacations? |
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Vacation Time/$ Lost
posted at 7/14/1999 6:01 PM EDT
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First: 6/16/1999 Last: 12/13/2001 |
Really, this depends on state law. As we have noted here many times, vacations which are "accrued" (this is a key legal concept, not a subjective impression of an employee), or "legally earned," may need to be paid out at the time of the employee's termination of employment. Some states do not require this pay out. Some states do. In some states, it depends on the employer's policy. Thus, you may be right -- Company A may have had an obligation to pay the vacation time out. If Company B is a legal "successor" to company A, then Company B might owe the money.
If you would like further information, you should contact your state's department of labor (in Lansing, Michigan, my old stomping ground). |
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