Thread regarding Sigma-Aldrich Corp. layoffs

Anonymous @2:03 pm - before we accumulated all annual vacation days on 4/1. That meant that if you quit on 4/1 the company would pay you for all of your vacation days. Now you accrue vacation days on a monthly basis. Say for that you are entitled to 12 vacation days a year. You earn one day per month. So if you quit on April 1, the company would only pay you for one day. There are many people who had 5 to 6 weeks of vacation. Now the company does not have to pay them if they are laid off. Also there's a chance that the employee may OWE the company of they took to much vacation at the time of dismissal.