What happens to unused vacation days ?
Submitted by Moshe on Mon, 08/11/2010 – 20:23
If your employer has a policy of erasing unused vacation days that have been accrued, then basically it’s “use them or lose them”.
This is totally legal provided the employer notifies the employees in ample time to allow them to utilize the accrued days.
If an employee has 10 accrued days, the employer can’t notify the employee on Dec 31st that the days will not be carried over to January. He can and should specify this in employee’s contracts or notification of work conditions as well as a reminder in Sept or Oct with the payslip and notification on employee notice boards.
If such policy does not exist then the days are accrued and carried over from one year to the next. This is easily checked as the balance must be listed on the paylsip.
When an employee resigns or is terminated his position, all unused vacation days that have been accrued are paid out on the last payslip.
