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Re:Atlassian fired me while I was taking care of my wife who... by chemeng on Thursday September 16, 2021 @03:16PM (#28555999)
It's a cost savings measure for CA companies to avoid having to hold employee's earned vacation hours as a liability to be paid out if they are unused when the employee separates. This is also why they cannot set a minimum, as that would indicate an amount of earned vacation per year.

To be clear, this is still very disingenuous and I believe companies should stop the practice.

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Re:Atlassian fired me while I was taking care of my wife who... by WorldMaker on Thursday September 16, 2021 @03:58PM (#28556671)
It is a loophole in labor laws that CA's legislature especially should close because it is against the spirit/intent of the laws that vacation time should be an asset owed to the employee as part of total compensation, not a whim to be managed (removed without recompense) by the employer.
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