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I also asked why my expected vacation hours were vastly different from the vacation hours they had on record. Unknown to me they automatically deduct vacation time if they show you did not work the required hours for that month to which I had several occurences of. The reason being sometimes I worked a shift schedual where I would would be short one month (depending on how many days I worked the last week of the month) and be over slightly the next month. They said the shortage was all that mattered and the overage for the next month would not compensate for it. So basically the system only works for them and does not average out between months.
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-Foxxz
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Okay, when you had "a month" where you were "over" do you mean exceeded 40 hours in any single work week?
There is no "standard month". Everything should be based on a 40-hour workweek. Did you ever work more than 40 hours in a single workweek?
If "yes", were you paid overtime (time and a half) for those hours in excess of 40?
If "no" and you can prove it (your copies of your time sheet for example, or pay stubs), go immediately to see the nearest office of the Wage and Hour Division of ot UNITED STATES (Federal) Department of Labor. They enforce the labor provisions of the Service Contract Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act.
The Wage and Hour Division can also examine your former employer's methodology for accruing vacation hours and see if it meets the standard in the SCA and the FLSA (I'll bet it doesn't - under the SCA you get 80 hours on the 366th day after you start working).
Plus I'll bet the way they handled holidays and holiday pay is screwed up too (it always is).
Your former employer is probably going to have to cut you a check. But, they can't do shit unless you go to them.
Many government contractors pull all kinds of shennaigans to avoid paying overtime, etc. They count on you not going to USDOL W&H because of 'loyalty to the work', etc. That's how companies like a certain well-known security firm get people to work as "independent contractors" when they are, in fact, employees. The "IC" scam keeps their bottom line low, but its a house of cards.