Hello. I'm hoping that someone can assist me. My husband works for a private company in California. They have been consistently bad about accruing vacation and sick leave for their employees. They do not post this information on the employee paystubs, instead making the staff go into one office where the information is kept in a book. This book is not constantly updated, and in fact since they go through payroll staff so often some payroll staff don't even seem to know about it. My question is, what are the legal requirements for a company to notify their employees of accrual balances? Do they have to put it on paychecks? If not, can they get in trouble for posting it only in one place and only having it updated on an irregular basis?

My husband, among many others in the company are quite sure that even though they've accrued time for vacation or sick time, it gets lost because of the procedure they have now. He hasn't been good about keeping track until now, but if you all knew the attitude of the person that's in the office where this book is kept, you wouldn't blame him. And there is no way for him to copy the pages from the book in order to back up his claim of them not accruing his time.

Sorry for the long post. Hopefully one of you can answer my question on their legal obligations or at least direct me on where to go.

Thanks!

To the best of my knowledge, there is no bookeeping requirement for vacation accruals.

Hi Megan,

Thank you for your prompt response. Unfortunately that isn't what I wanted to hear. It is good to know whether we have a leg to stand on or not.

Thanks!