If an employee works less than two weeks at new job do we still have to pay vacation time?
Full Question:
If a employee gets new time off benefits staring January 1, and she only works January 2 and then sends a letter on January 15 that she quits, do we still have to ay her vacation benefits for the new year?
01/31/2007 |
Category: Employment |
State: Illinois |
#992
Answer:
We are assuming that this issue was not covered in her employment
agreement (written or oral) and that there is no personnel manual or
employee handbook covering this issue.
Vacation pay is widely regarded as a form of wages. Therefore, an
employee earns vacation pay simultaneously with other forms of ongoing
compensation. Did she “earn” this vacation time the previous year? If so,
then she should be compensated. For example, if ten days vacation is
allowed after working for twelve months in a previous year, the vacation
pay would have been earned by an employee who worked the previous
twelve months.
