Screwed out of my accrued vacation time after leaving company. Is this right?

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So I was laid off and was recieving severance for the last six weeks. I thought I was supposed to get paid my accrued vacation time as well, but they told me that apparently when I first started working their, they pay you 80 hours up front so you dont have to wait four weeks to get your check? Ok. But now, they said that when I left, they subtracted that 80 hours from my vacation pay, and totally screwed me out of it.

Does this sound right, or no?

What if I took all my vacation days before I left? I saved them because I knew I was getting laid off and figured I could use the money, but now they are telling me that its washed out by what they gave me when I first started nearly five years ago.

Any advice would help. This is in Pennsylvania as well, if you need that information.

elysialaw · Answer

Well, the math seems simple to me. You've been paid for 80 unworked hours. 

You say the vacation pay thing is in your contract, so I find it highly unlikely that this 80 hour advance thing is not.

sploogin4u · Answer

That does sound a little screwy. I am getting laid off the end of the year as well, and since I have known about it all along, I am burning all my time so that I don't end up in the same boat like you. I don't know what you could really do. Burn the place down I guess.

? · Answer

Companies are not required to pay you for vacation time banked ... Unless it is otherwise spelled out in an employment contract.

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Screwed out of my accrued vacation time after leaving company. Is this right?

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