{"id":646,"date":"2020-03-23T04:04:40","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T04:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arinjames.com\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=646"},"modified":"2020-04-01T01:41:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T01:41:39","slug":"vacation-pay","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/arinjames.com\/practice-area\/vacation-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Vacation Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">California law does not require employers to provide its employees with paid or unpaid vacation time.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>However, employers who do provide their employees with paid vacation must follow certain requirements.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Specifically, an employee\u2019s earned vacation time is considered wages.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Vacation time that is accrued cannot be forfeited.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In other words, \u201cuse it or lose it\u201d policies are illegal.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Employers can, however, place a reasonable cap on the amount of vacation time that an employee accrues.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Employers can also require an employee to be employed for a certain amount of time before accruing vacation.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>However, when an employee\u2019s employment ends (be it by termination or resignation), and the employee has not used all of his\/her earned vacation, the employer must pay the employee his\/her final rate of pay for all earned, accrued, and unused vacation days (just like wages).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>If an employer fails to pay an employee\u2019s earned, accrued, and unused vacation at the time of termination, the employer may be liable for waiting time penalties (not to exceed 30 days of wages).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California law does not require employers to provide its employees with paid or unpaid vacation time.\u00a0 However, employers who do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":891,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"portfolio_category":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - 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