That used to be true, but many companies moved to Personal Time Off(PTO) instead which doesn’t have that requirement. Will vary by state and country, but I can confirm in Florida and Gerogia in the US that it’s use it or lose it. No payout necessary, even if laid off.
However, I’ve had employers that simply paid out your vacation pay on every paycheque, it was a pittance of like $30 if that…
So they never “accumulated” any vacation time for workers and couldn’t give any fewer shits if you took your vacation or not. They would only give a shit if you took too much time off for vacation.
Hell - here’s how fucked up it is - my SO worked in clinic that wasn’t open on holidays, but offered no holiday pay, so employees had to use the 10 or 14 vaca days they got to cover their 7 holidays, which they couldn’t have worked if they wanted to. ‘Ready, able, and willing’ is how the law is worded, for salaried employees. But these things are meaningless relics of old times when labor had some power and wasn’t just the fleshlight of the rich.
I actually disagree with this. Then employers can pay employees less and say “well then you should just not take time off”. It’ll make situations where people cannot afford to take their holidays. If anything, you should just have them automatically waiting in a stack at the end of the year.
Rolling them over would be better, but most full time jobs do cash out your unused PTO onto the last paycheck of the financial year. Some jobs let you roll over a limited amount, and sometimes that amount increases each year.
that’s so american brained it’s comical. no dude, in normal countries you can’t deduce benefits from the wage. “i can pay you less than minimum wage because you get tips” doesn’t happen outside of corporatistan
Pretty sure they have to give you cash for them when they expire
That used to be true, but many companies moved to Personal Time Off(PTO) instead which doesn’t have that requirement. Will vary by state and country, but I can confirm in Florida and Gerogia in the US that it’s use it or lose it. No payout necessary, even if laid off.
I believe my country (Canada) mandates this.
However, I’ve had employers that simply paid out your vacation pay on every paycheque, it was a pittance of like $30 if that…
So they never “accumulated” any vacation time for workers and couldn’t give any fewer shits if you took your vacation or not. They would only give a shit if you took too much time off for vacation.
Beyond that, you’re on your own.
I never took vacation.
They do not, unless you have an employment contract that says otherwise.
Hell - here’s how fucked up it is - my SO worked in clinic that wasn’t open on holidays, but offered no holiday pay, so employees had to use the 10 or 14 vaca days they got to cover their 7 holidays, which they couldn’t have worked if they wanted to. ‘Ready, able, and willing’ is how the law is worded, for salaried employees. But these things are meaningless relics of old times when labor had some power and wasn’t just the fleshlight of the rich.
I actually disagree with this. Then employers can pay employees less and say “well then you should just not take time off”. It’ll make situations where people cannot afford to take their holidays. If anything, you should just have them automatically waiting in a stack at the end of the year.
Rolling them over would be better, but most full time jobs do cash out your unused PTO onto the last paycheck of the financial year. Some jobs let you roll over a limited amount, and sometimes that amount increases each year.
that’s so american brained it’s comical. no dude, in normal countries you can’t deduce benefits from the wage. “i can pay you less than minimum wage because you get tips” doesn’t happen outside of corporatistan
what are you talking about
This is not a thing that can happen in normal countries.