Just curious if I have any recourse.....
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Just curious if I have any recourse.....
My department is being closed down (15 of us laid off) and while they tried to give us lots of notice, it wasn't enough notice for me to use all my accumulated comp time and vacation time (because there are a handful of hours I will just HAVE to work to close down the dept).
They say I cannot cash out any of my leave time at the end because five years ago, I cashed out some comp time back then (I always have a ton of accumulated leave because I work a lot of over hours in travel time, projects, etc. but am salaried exempt -- that's another story, but I digress....).
This means at the end, I will be leaving about 40 hours of leave "on the table" that I will not be compensated for but could not have taken in the time between layoff notice and last day of work because there weren't enough hours left on the clock. They say I can just donate it to their leave bank.
For a colleague with accumulated leave, they offered to simply add it as additional weeks to her weeks of severance pay. For me, they say they can't do that because their policy is that an employee can only take advantage of that employee benefit once, and I already did. I would think that "terminal payout" would be different than "we can't keep letting you cash in leave while you are working" but I'm curious how other management might handle it.
For context: I've worked there 16 years and am a team leader; the colleague has worked there 9 years and is a team member. We all get the same 9 years' worth of severance (company says their policy is one week per year worked, but with a 9 weeks max for severance).
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