Is this legal?

notrichenough
Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:29:13 +0000

In every company I’ve ever worked for (and there have been plenty), vacation time accrues at every pay period. You divide how many days per year you get by how many pay periods there are in a year, and that many hours are accrued to your account.

A company can limit how much you can accrue (my current company is 240 hours, as an example), but once you accrue the hours, the company is legally required to pay you for them when you leave. You own it.

I’ve heard of companies that credit all your vacation on January 1. If you leave on Jan 2., you get it all. Don’t know if anyone still does it this way though. Computerized payrolls make it too easy to do it every pay period.