Back in the summer, we took a two week vacation to see family, and my wife properly relayed the days she would be gone and, properly, put in the PTO request. It was approved.
Today, however, she was told that there was a mistake made by someone on the team, and as a result, no PTO was utilized. Now she's being given two options: surrender the PTO equivalent that she's accrued or pay the company back.
She was also told that this was her fault, not the company's, because she could've checked to make sure everything was right in December. Not back in the summer when the person whose job it was to enter it apparently entered it wrong, but December.
She came home in tears tonight and is frantically looking for new positions elsewhere, even thinking about a month break because of the stress that other factors at work at have contributed.
What I want to know is what can be done? She did everything correctly and feels like she's being punished for something she didn't even do. Can a workplace even do this?