Can an Employer Make Employees Use Vacation Hours?

Can an Employer Make Employees Use Vacation Hours?

Q: Can an employer legally make their employees use their accumulated vacation hours? A: Yes. An employer can tell an employee that they need to take time off. However, that rarely bodes well for the morale of the employee if they don’t want to take the time off. Some...
Holiday Pay Laws

Holiday Pay Laws

Q: Am I required to pay overtime to employees who work on holidays? A: Whether you pay extra for work done on holidays is up to you. There are no federal holiday pay laws that requires an employer to pay extra for work on holidays. However, some states, such as...
The Paid Sick Leave Trend

The Paid Sick Leave Trend

Earlier this year, President Obama called on Congress to enact a federal law requiring businesses to offer seven days of paid sick leave to workers, but the proposed law is unlikely to pass in the current political climate. Nevertheless, a paid sick leave trend has...
Employee Vacation Management

Employee Vacation Management

You want to support employees by providing the opportunity for work/life harmony, but you also have customers to service and a business to run. Sometimes it is difficult to juggle multiple vacation requests around popular vacation times, especially during the summer...
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