My scenario was that I work for a company that had a policy in place that allowed employees to accrue vacation time and carry it from year to year..In November of 2006, the company changed policy and told employees to use it or lose it by December 31, 2006. Employer could not or would not grant all employees their requests, therefore I lost 3 days pay….

Gal who hold phonetoo close to mouth said small claims court, go to small claims court..you have a case there…they can’t take that time.

In addition to the Federally issued Fairness DOctrine, most states have their own. In Ohio’s case, it is implemented aspart of the ORC.

What they did was legal under Ohio Law.

The answer to your question is that they simply lost the vacation time and was not compensated.

I know- because I was one of them. I lost 3 days paid vacation. But it was legal for them to do, but fallls under your classification of abuse.

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Employer allowed accrued vacation time. Employees have banked time based on said policy. Company sets new policy that is not practical for employer or employee. Was the company able to grant every employees time off request and still be able to operate? I doubt it. The time was pay banked and you can’t screw with pay legally.

MI is at will as well. My sister’s employer changed their policy as well. When the policy went into effect, the employees were paid for the banked time because it was cash sitting in limbo…In order to stay within the law, the company had to pay the employees this money,or banked time. They were proactive, whereas, it appears your company seems to think they can do what they want and wait to be challenged….

In a free market, they absolutely do.

For example, in an at will employment state, my employer can terminate employment at any time without notice and so can the employee.

“Abuse by a corporation would be cutting off insurance with no notice”.

“Abuse would be changing coprporate policies without notice/explanation to employees.”

So now I am confused, because this is perfectly legal for a corporation to do in many states. Last year in the end of November, my company change policy without notice, telling us that we were no longer allowed to carry over vacation to the next year and we had to use it or loose it in the last month. Many lost it because their superviors would not approve the vacation request.

SFL, I can honestly tell you that Dad hated the Union most of the time. He hated having to be out of work for weeks on end because some moron at the mine did something stupid and the union called a strike to get the idiot his job back. That included occasions when the incident involved the moron doing something that put other miners’ lives at risk. Sometimes the strike would be because someone at another mine did something stupid so some idiot at his mine would decide that they would go out on strike in sympathy. It was not unusual for there to be half a dozen one to two week strikes in the 12 months leading up to the end of the contract. This meant that when the contract expired, he had no savings to pay bills for as long as it took for the contract to be resolved. One contract took 4 months negotiate.