Ga pto laws

[rolling13]

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

I have accrued 88 hours of PTO that is set to expire in on my Anniversary date in April of 2011. My company has just sent an e-mail cancelling all accrued PTO and any future PTO. I understand that it is legal to stop letting us accrue PTO, but is it legal to cancel already agreed upon accrual. I have a previously approved PTO/vacation request for February that they are now telling me that I cannot take with pay. I had asked for the vacation in November, but my manager said we were too busy so I pushed it to Feb 2011. Do I have any recourse to get them to honor the already approved request and to allow me to take the other 88 hours that was previously accrued?

 

[pattytx]

There is no law in Georgia prohibiting use-it-or-lose-it vacation policies (or hardly anything else, for that matter).

It's slightly possible that the policy currently in effect would be considered a contract that confers such a right, but it's very uinlikely. The great majority of employee handbooks and company policies do not rise to the level of a contract. For this amount of hours, though, I guess it wouldn't hurt to run all the documentation you have by an employment law attorney in your state.