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My employer told me they were going to pay me for my time off at christmas, I work for a contracting company and am employed at a shipbuilding facility that closes every year for two weeks at christmas. I started with a new contracting company after the one I was with had lost their contract in the shipyard and lost my vacation time accrued as they do not pay vacation time if you are not with them at the anniversary date. The new company's head boss told me not to worry about it he would take care of me and both he and my handler stated that they would pay me 40 hours a week for each week I was off. I recieved my last work pay right before christmas for time I had worked the week before and there was a check for 250.00 attached stating "Merry Christmas" I thought it was a nice gift. The following week, when I should have recieved my first "vacation pay" nothing was in my account and I couldnt reach my handler, finally after I returned to work I contacted her and was told "no we are not giving you any paid time off other than the 250.00 that you had earned as "accrued paid time off" and that there should have been a letter stating that they would not be giving the vacation pay as promised as apparently it was " against the law for an employer to pay the employee for time not worked" now I am left without rent or transportation money that I was tol would be there and I want to take some sort of action against them. Is there anything I can do?
My employer told me they were going to pay me for my time off at christmas, I work for a contracting company and am employed at a shipbuilding facility that closes every year for two weeks at christmas. I started with a new contracting company after the one I was with had lost their contract in the shipyard and lost my vacation time accrued as they do not pay vacation time if you are not with them at the anniversary date. The new company's head boss told me not to worry about it he would take care of me and both he and my handler stated that they would pay me 40 hours a week for each week I was off. I recieved my last work pay right before christmas for time I had worked the week before and there was a check for 250.00 attached stating "Merry Christmas" I thought it was a nice gift. The following week, when I should have recieved my first "vacation pay" nothing was in my account and I couldnt reach my handler, finally after I returned to work I contacted her and was told "no we are not giving you any paid time off other than the 250.00 that you had earned as "accrued paid time off" and that there should have been a letter stating that they would not be giving the vacation pay as promised as apparently it was " against the law for an employer to pay the employee for time not worked" now I am left without rent or transportation money that I was tol would be there and I want to take some sort of action against them. Is there anything I can do?
My employer told me they were going to pay me for my time off at christmas, I work for a contracting company and am employed at a shipbuilding facility that closes every year for two weeks at christmas. I started with a new contracting company after the one I was with had lost their contract in the shipyard and lost my vacation time accrued as they do not pay vacation time if you are not with them at the anniversary date. The new company's head boss told me not to worry about it he would take care of me and both he and my handler stated that they would pay me 40 hours a week for each week I was off. I recieved my last work pay right before christmas for time I had worked the week before and there was a check for 250.00 attached stating "Merry Christmas" I thought it was a nice gift. The following week, when I should have recieved my first "vacation pay" nothing was in my account and I couldnt reach my handler, finally after I returned to work I contacted her and was told "no we are not giving you any paid time off other than the 250.00 that you had earned as "accrued paid time off" and that there should have been a letter stating that they would not be giving the vacation pay as promised as apparently it was " against the law for an employer to pay the employee for time not worked" now I am left without rent or transportation money that I was tol would be there and I want to take some sort of action against them. Is there anything I can do?
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