Vacation taken away

[Guest RyanBowlin]

My employer will take vac.time i use if i leave before the end of the year.Ithink this is against the law.He said that what the ten people that are in the union agreed to.theres about 80 people working there.Is this not stealing.I am leaveing the first of the year. But i have worked there many years.Made many friends there.Iwas wondering is there anything i could tell them.Its like he steals one week of pay from you.Hardy nobody stays at one job for life.

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RyanBowlin

[Dave Baker]

Often a state's statutory laws will regulate whether an employer can cause an employee's earned vacation time to be forfeited when the individual leaves employment. It depends on the state you're working in.

The kinds of attorneys who know about these laws are "labor" or "employment" lawyers - they are usually listed under "Attorneys" in the yellow pages, under one or those two categories.