My place of employment is taking away my coworkers PTO that was approved 5 months ago. She already planned a trip out of the country. Management is stating it’s due to staffing reasons and her not having enough PTO. Literally nothing has changed with our staffing situation and I’ve seen her PTO bank… she has plenty to cover. When she told our supervisor she already bought plane tickets out of the country, our supervisor responded with “you can resubmit the PTO request but you’ll get 3 occurrences for it”. We’re just baffled by this and don’t know what she can do about it. When she asked HR about the PTO policy, they were most unhelpful.