Accrued Vac. Pay taken away?

[daveyswr]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? PA

I am hourly and recently have had my employer take 35 hours off of my accrued vacation pay when he decided that any time off that was unexcused would result in losing equal time in accrued vacation time. (decided in June and taken away from since January) Apart from the fact that it is up to him what is considered unexcused time off...is it legal to take from your accrued vacation time. It also seems that he is quite biased to some employee's excusable time off. What are my options?

 

[mlane58]

Does your employe have a policy on vacation and how is earned? If they do, take a copy and make a complaint with you state DOL.

 

[cbg]

PA is not one of the few states that considers vacation time to be earned wages, so unless there is something IN WRITING that prohibits this it's probably legal. I don't see much difference between this and requiring the use of vacation time for the unexcused absences, which is unquestionably legal.