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Job Refusing To Payout Pto Over 2 Week Notice Miscommunication.

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This isn't for me, but more so for my dad.

My dad worked at his job for 25 years and safe to say it's sucked the life out of him. A month ago he went to HR and asked how many week in advance he would need to let them know in order to pay out his PTO. (He has around 200 hours in PTO) HR told him he needed to give 2 weeks notice. Two weeks ago he put in his notice and it's been going fine.

Today is his last day(fri, Oct 2nd), and at 8am he got an email from the head of HR saying he needed to give a 4 weeks notice to get his PTO payout and that he wouldn't be receiving the money because of that lack of notice.

(Another thing that was mentioned to me was that if your part of the union you have to give 4 weeks notice but my dad ISN'T a part of the union.)

My dad isn't confrontational. I know he's just going to let it slide, but that's about $10,000 in PTO. Money we could really use right now. And with all of the crap and stress and sleepless nights they have put him through, that money would really be nice for him to have.

I don't know, does anyone has any advice? Is that even legal that they swapped up on him the second it's his last day and he can't do anything about it? I looked a little bit into it and within the state of Minnesota there isn't necessarily any PTO payout laws, but it just feels weird and scummy.

Location: Minnesota

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