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vacation pay

Asked 18 August 2012 · 2 answers

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Our general manager informed us almost two years ago that he had not been accurately keeping track of our accumulating vacation hours. As a result he advised us that we all owed large amounts of vacation time to our owner. For the last year those hours have been deducted from our paychecks. It has taken until this month for me to pay back these supposed owed hours. We were never given understandable documentation for these owed hours. Was this legal?

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Visitor answer 9 October 2012

Although paid vacations are not required by law, companies which choose to give their employee's paid vacations must adhere to whatever policy the company has in place. The company should have their policy on vacations in the employees' contracts or in an employee handbook and the company should stick with what they wrote down. Doing anything else might be considered a breach of contract.

Assuming that the company communicated a policy of paid vacations to the employees, your manager cannot go back on that policy simply because he screwed up. I believe you have grounds for some kind of suit. I suggest you consult an employment or business attorney for legal advice.

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Visitor answer 19 October 2012

If you run a business or manage people, you need to know about the to rates of pay, hours of work and overtime, vacations, public holidays, various . salespersons who solicit orders principally outside the place of business of the entitlement to vacations and vacation pay are intended to ensure .

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