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When my husband was hired he was promised 8 hours a month vacation and 8 hours a month sick leave with un-used vacation or sick leave accruing. Under the policy he was hired under, any illness for himself or the children that was confirmed by a doctor would come out of sick-leave.

After two years of employment his company has changed the policy. The new policy states that for each incidence of illness an employee must take the first 8 hours of leave as vacation time. He cannot touch the sick-leave until he has used 8-hours per incident of vacation time. If the employee has used all of the vacation time accrued, but has not accrued a minimum of 250 hours of sick leave, the employee is terminated.

They have terminated five employees for taking leave to visit doctors, because the employees were out of vacation, even though techinically the employees had sick-leave built up, just not 250 hours of sick leave.

Is this legal? If not, what law can we reference to protest this new policy?
 
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