Legal Question in Employment Law in California

Changing vacation policy

My question is two-fold. We have an exempt outside sales engineer whom we have given vacation. He has reached his 160 hr cap. We want to make him take 1 week of vacation by the end of the year, then we'll pay him the balance. Then we want to change our policy so that outside sales engineers do not accrue any vacation. Can we do this?

We have an inside sales guy that receives vacation and PTO. We want to change PTO to sick leave. Do we need to treat the PTO that he has on the books like vacation and pay him for that prior to converting the PTO to sick leave?


Asked on 11/21/08, 2:25 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Terry A. Nelson Nelson & Lawless

Re: Changing vacation policy

You can implement any policy you want - 'prospectively', not 'retroactively'. You must follow whatever rules and policies are now in force, and then make changes to the policy with notice to all employees.

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Answered on 11/24/08, 5:33 pm


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