Thread regarding Macy's Inc. layoffs

Yes. They were in approved status and they were submitted way before time. I saw the one for the sales supervisor myself when I was doing a missed punch on his time card. He has 2 days scheduled the last week of January. He was never paid for them. I submitted a request via askhr and the money was direct deposited into his account 2 days later. A lot of places had issues with pay around this time. My former DDHR confirmed today that it was a major issue with thousands of employees and said it’s getting corrected. She said some were impacted by a glitch and everything showed processed but payments never made it to associates. They don’t know what caused it.

Did the PTO get entered into the system correctly AND approved? I don’t understand why it wouldn’t pay as a normal paycheck as long as it was entered prior to the term being processed ....We laid off 22 people on Feb 3, and I went back and looked and we had seven that had some PTO that last week before their layoff date and everyone received their pay. I haven’t heard from anyone that their last paycheck was wrong and was missing their PTO.

It was confusing. But I can say for a fact we had 2 employees who were being let go and both had pto before feb 2nd and they were not paid. One was an hourly associate and the other was an hourly exec. I had to request payment via askhr. They were both paid within a few days of the request. Meanwhile I have a few others who were not paid regular earnings for whatever reason, and I had to request at least 3 times for each of them to get paid. At some point after the conversion with this new system, a lot off people had pay issues.

Very confusing. And regardless the system won’t allow 2017 pto to even be input on any day past Feb 3 anyway. Any days keyed for feb 4 or later was fiscal 2018 eligibility. But if the days were input for anytime prior to feb 3, they would have been paid as time due on that last paycheck. The term process would not have kept those days from being paid. But if it was for 2017 you just basically forfeited your days because you didn’t get them taken before the end of the fiscal year, assuming you aren’t in one of the two rollover states already mentioned. Tough break, but this would have happened whether or not you were termed anyway. If the OP could come back and clarify what 5 days of pto they thought they were getting paid for, it would sure make this thread easier to understand. Any anytime you take Pro you have to make sure it was approved in the system, you can’t assume it’s approved unless you see it yourself.

It was the 2017 pto but the way this person worded it, made it seem like the reference was for 2018 pto. Vacation was taken week of Jan 26th and last day of employment was Feb 3rd. My guess is if the term was processed before the 3rd—was submitted, but the effect date was the 3rd then this is what most likely messed up the pto pay. Sometimes the system makes things effective earlier.

I’m also not trying to be rude, but I agree with the other posters below. If you have worked for the company for 15 years then you have to know how PTO works! Doesn’t matter that you scheduled it in December. PTO taken after Feb 3 was fiscal 2018. You had not earned any of that eligible PTO because you had not even been employed at all during fiscal 2018. Even then you earn 1/12 of it each complete month you are employed in fiscal 2018 unless in California or Montana. Doesn’t matter that your manager approved it. You are not due that time. Your ASTS should have caught the fact this was scheduled and talked to you about it! If you are trying to say that the days were from fiscal 2017, then you go back and look at the policy again. Very few states allow rollover from one fiscal year to the other, and unless you are employed in one of those states, you forfeited any PTO from fiscal 2017 once Feb 3 closed that year. Again, if you are a 15 year employee, you have to know how PTO works and you should not be expecting to be paid that week of PTO. Pleas clarify whether this was fiscal 2017 or fiscal 2018 eligibility you scheduled for that week after your term date.

It is very confusing I should of worded it differently ! I always keep some days to roll over into January because of our busy holiday season! I did inventory this year that’s why I waited so far into January to schedule it ! I guess this year obviously not a good year to do so! I will keep trying to get paid I feel I earned those days .

I know the policy well. Again sorry to come off as rude but you wrote in your original post your last day was Feb 3rd and you worked your last 2 days. Then you said, “.....and was off the NEXT WEEK....”. So the “next” week is the new fiscal year, hence my comments. Based on what you wrote, it indicates you took vacation in the new fiscal year with your 2017 time which obviously we know that can’t happen. Now that you have cleared it up with the exact week. So I am going to apologize for coming off as rude but it was based on what you wrote. I am an AST Supervisor and we had some people who had pto scheduled like you but were not paid. I opened cases in askhr and they were paid surprisingly! As I have had other associates with pay issues well before them and I’m still trying to get a few of them paid. So you may have to ask your AST to submit again. Good luck.

My vacation was from the last week of January -February 2nd so you see it was before the the new fiscal year in fact our schedules were out and it clearly showed I had 5 pto’s that week so my manager said that I should finish out the week and the next week I had vacation time ! So what was I suppose to do come in where it says I have pto’s

Sorry you have to be so rude but I scheduled that week vacation in December of 2017! It was approved from my manager which I have the documentation and the vacation was 1 week not 2 if you would look and understand what your reading ! Don’t know how long you have worked for Macys I know the policy well and have been there long enough to know that you can carry some pto’s over into the next year as long as they are taken by February 3rd when the new fiscal year starts so maybe it’s time for you to get out that policy book and look it over

I’m sorry you lost your job but your situation makes no sense. You have worked for the company 15 years and you still don’t understand how their fiscal calendar and pto work? Why would they pay you AFTER your official term date anyway? Secondly there’s no way possible you scheduled 2 weeks in the system back in December for weeks beginning in the new 2018 fiscal year. The following year’s time is never available until mid January. And no way could you have used 2017 pto days for after Feb 3, 2018. This is what makes me angry. How Macy’s takes advantage of those who don’t even bother to take the time to learn and understand what they are entitled to. Especially after 15 years, you should know better not to have let it happen. No need to call as they will not pay you now.

Macys operates on a fiscal calendar- February is the first month of the year and January is the last month. Any PTO used in January was from 2017. PTO used in February is from 2018. Your coworkers that used PTO in January was from 2017 not 2018.

Thank you for answering and trying to help ! My question is that if I would of taken all that pto earlier in January then I wouldn’t of had to pay it back. my coworkers took there’s and got laid off and nobody asked then to pay that back!! It’s hard to understand .

I am sorry the you were laid off after so many years at Macy's. I can understand why you would be upset about this. It has csn be challenging to get correct answers through AskHR not that we don't have HR in stores.

How PTO works at MAcys is your total amount of PTO for 2018 shows up in MTO in February. The time that you are eligible to be paid out is accrued as you work during the year. If you leave before you have earned the PTO, it will not pay out. I am not sure of the formula that is used to calculate this. If it is earned by month, you would earn 1/12 of your PTO for each month that you worked in 2018.

For example- you have 120 hours of PTO. You work the full month of February and leave in March. You have earned 10 hours of the 120 hours to be paid out when you leave.