After being a big ticket employee for nearly 4 years my store finally needed to lay off some people due to the incompetent management. I have been fighting for nearly 2 months now to receive my vacation pay and neither the union nor any store management/hr is willing to speak to me or return any of my calls. I’m am thankful to have already found a better paying job, but I fear for my fellow employees who are nearing retirement once these cowards finish driving this joke of a company into the ground.
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Macy's emains the worst company in Silly Con Valley – consistently nudging 680 Folsom employees towards end-of-life (EOL) decisions (by way of deeply abusive engineering management enabled by in-human resources department).
I think we have been linked on this post. Just someone stirring up trouble, hasn’t bothered to check back in. Or he got told what most everyone was saying on here and he’s too ashamed to admit it.
@1xgr+13XQY6Em, the hours are loaded for the upcoming fiscal year in late January. You only earn a portion of those hours as you remain employed and work your way through that fiscal year; for most states it’s 1/12 of the total each FULL month you are employed Feb-Jan. Some states it’s a little different, something like 1/52 each FULL week you are employed. But it’s absolutely untrue that you were due all 40 hours of the PTO you saw in the system for 2020, especially if you are in a 1/12 state. You didn’t work the full month of February so you don’t even get the 1/12 of the 40 hours. Yes, if you were still employed you could take all that time upfront but if you left the company at any point during the year you would then owe back what you had taken and not yet earned at that point of time.
Doesn’t matter if it was “in the system” and your store manager obviously doesn’t have a clue either. READ what Insite says. It was your ELIGIBLE time to be earned for fiscal 2020. You aren’t entitled to it if you didn’t work in fiscal 2020. It’s clear as day. I’m astounded at the other people on this post who are egging you on telling you that you were owed all this time. Please post the TRUTH on here when you get your answer. All it takes is one phone call to 800-234-6229.
Sorry about your position. If your employment ended last month, you will not be paid for you vacation or your sick pay-I assume you are in a 1S store maybe, Those hours appear on INSITE in the beginning of the fiscal year, but not fully earned. They are there under the assumption that you will be employed for a full year.
I think you were told the wrong information. Look at your severance paperwork. Does it say you will receive this pay? Call HR Services if you need more clarification.
Vacation is earned as you go!! Not from the prior year! If you take more vacation then you earned ( in 2020 ) then when you quit the company, you would have to pay it back! It explains it on the vacation screen on insite. Good luck!
I am so terribly sorry to hear that you had to go through that kind of abuse. I sincerely hope that Macy’s is ancient history for you and that you’ve moved onto the bigger and better things that you deserve. My time at Macy’s was terrible, I dreaded every single day. My wife and friends have told me that I am a completely different person since the day I left that place. I went to work there as a “go-between” since I really needed to get out of the company I was at, a friend of mine had just started with Macy’s and it seemed to be a good thing at the time. The longer I stayed, the worse everything became to the point where I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I think I can understand what you mean by the abuse that you dealt with.
The hours are there and available to be taken, this was confirmed by store management. The union has done nothing and said nothing. Fellow employees who have left as well in the past during the same time of year received theirs without issue. Besides that, even if they choose not to pay out, how many phone calls and emails will it take for the store manager to just say that? I think you have missed the point of what I am saying. I am not begging Macy’s for money or trying to stand on the point that they owe me. The point I’m making here is that they are avoiding the entire issue. The lay-off officially took place after the start of the new fiscal year, all vacation has already been put in place. Insite does not tell you that you have hours that you don’t have, if that were the case, I would not have been able to take PTO and sick safe for the remaining 3 days that I was scheduled to work and was paid for those days.
You don't get paid for 2020. The hours you view on insite is for the whole year, if you worked all of your hours. You did not. Therefore, you do not receive vacation pay. I don't care what the union told you. It is not true my friend.
Yes, I fully understand. I have a full 40 hours of vacation pay, which I was told by the store manager would be paid out on my last check. My official lay-off notice was given almost 2 months ago. My official last scheduled day was 2/8. So all vacation/PTO etc for 2020 was in the system. I began working with the union upon receiving notice to make sure everything would be paid out as promised.
What vacation pay? What are you expecting? If you left two months ago you aren’t entitled to vacation from 2020. You haven’t earned any! You understand how it works, right?