If your job shuts down for 9 days for a holiday and you get 2 paid holidays, can you be forced to use your vacation days even if you dont want to?
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If your job shuts down for 9 days for a holiday and you get 2 paid holidays, can you be forced to use your vacation days even if you dont want to?
Asked on June 24, 2012 under Employment Labor Law, Georgia
Answers:
M.D., Member, California and New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 11 years ago | Contributor
Yes, your employer can probably do this. This is because the majority of employment arrangements are what is known as "at will". This means that an employer can hire or fire someone for any reason or no reason. It can also increase/decrease salary/hours, promote/demote, and generally impose requirements as it sees fit. Therefore, absent an employment agreement, a union contract, or a stated company policy (or if some type of discrimination is a factor), an employer can mandate when and how PTO is (or is not0 taken.
More specifically, while employees generally see vacation as an automatic ight of employment that they can use as they see fit, the law doesn't see it this way. The fact is that vacations are not legally required to be provided. To the extent that an employer institutes such a policy it is a discretionary benefit and as such the employer can design it any way it chooses.
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