I am a salaried employee at a company in PA. The company has decided to close the offices from December 25th through January 1st. During this time we will receive holiday pay for Dec. 24th, 25th and Jan. 1st. But during the remaining dates we will be required to take "PTO". I know employers can decide when you are allowed to take your vacation but I thought that related to giving you a time frame, not deciding to close the office and then force the employees to use their vacation time.Ths is something new that the company is trying for the 2008 Holiday season and notified us of their plan today(23 days before it goes into effect).

My questions are: (1) Can a company force employees to use their vacation days if the office will be closed? (2)Is this not a breach of contract since this was not originally stated when we signed up with the company?

Any insight or a link to PA labor law that spells out this issue would be greatly appreciated!!

1.) Yes. This is legal in all 50 states.

2.) No. They do not need to tell you at hire everything that they're ever going to do. They are allowed tp implement new policies. This works both ways - if they could never do anything that was not discussed at hire, you'd never get a raise, a promotion, or an increase in benefits.