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Nov17

Salaried Employees

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If a salaried employee takes vacation and does not have enough pto hours to cover the vacation, can you deduct the wages from their paycheck?

Yes, under federal law, specifically the FLSA or Fair Labor Standards Act. Generally an employer must pay a salaried workers full salary for a week in which the employee does any work at all. However, that rule applies only if the employee is ready, willing and able to work the entire week. An employee who takes one or more days off for vacation, is not ready, willing and able to work the entire week. He or she takes the additional, unpaid days off for personal business — in this case, the business of being on vacation. Employers need not pay an exempt employee who is absent for one or more full days on personal business.

A few states have laws that might change this answer.

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