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Friends PTO not going to be paid out due to company error

(Ohio) Just looking for advice on this issue. My friend is leaving his company and his final day is this coming Friday. He gave a 2 weeks notice and is going to be following through on it. He also took a day off Monday that he was told wouldn't be PTO because of his 2 weeks for a drug test for his new job. However, today when he went and talked to HR about how his PTO would be paid out, they told him there was a mistake and his time of Monday was entered as PTO and thus his other PTO would not be paid out once he left. They even said it was a company policy. We both looked through the handbook he was given when he started and there is nothing in there about that scenario. I told him next steps should be telling them that there…


(Ohio) Just looking for advice on this issue. My friend is leaving his company and his final day is this coming Friday. He gave a 2 weeks notice and is going to be following through on it. He also took a day off Monday that he was told wouldn't be PTO because of his 2 weeks for a drug test for his new job. However, today when he went and talked to HR about how his PTO would be paid out, they told him there was a mistake and his time of Monday was entered as PTO and thus his other PTO would not be paid out once he left. They even said it was a company policy. We both looked through the handbook he was given when he started and there is nothing in there about that scenario. I told him next steps should be telling them that there is nothing in there about that and that they should be paying him and if not, he'll be grabbing a lawyer. I also told him to get a paper trail of everything said. Not going to a lawyer just yet but, depending on how tomorrow goes, will be soon.

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