I have been working with this company for just under a year and have put in my two weeks notice. My question is will I get vacation compensation pay when i leave? It states in one of our employment handbook that you need to work for a year in order to receive 2 weeks paid vacation. While i have been working here my check stubs have shown me how many vacation hours I have accumulated each pay period with a total.

I guess my bottom line question is, Do you get vacation compensation for putting in 2 weeks notice at a part time job when your check stubs show you accumulating vacation time. Or is this really just up to the employer and I need to ask an HR rep?

PS. Someone that has worked here for about 15 years said that yes I do get vacation pay when I leave.

Thanks in advance.

We have the same problem at my company.

We show hours of vacation accrued on the pay stub. We pay everyone vacation, even someone that works four hours a week. The catch is, they must work a year to earn it. Once they meet the one year target, they can use any and all vacation as it accrues.

The problem was that folks that worked less than a year got mighty ugly when they were told that they could not use their vacation time or be paid it when they were terminated.

We changed our system. Now, new hires get a vacation accrual rate of zero per hour worked. After a year, we have to go in and manually adjust the accrual rate and the vacation earned. A major pain, but it beats getting calls about time not earned.

If the company policy is one year to get the vacation, and you leave one day shy of that, you get nothing.