Sorry if this is I the wrong subreddit. So, a little background. I work as a cleaner and I'm in a union. Part time for the time being. The job's easy as hell, no complaints there, and the work environment is laid back, and with the paid vacation etc, I know I have it better than most folks these days (I'm in the US). I've been there 6 years and some change, and you gain more vacation weeks the longer you work there.
Now, I forgot how much time you work there before you get more vaca exactly, since there's a sheet that tells you that once it comes time to pick vacation weeks. How it goes is you choose your weeks far in advance in order or seniority. Far from ideal (the people who've been there forever always snatch up all the summer weeks ofc) but it is what it is. So last year, I was glad to see that I'd have 3 weeks of vacation instead of the 2 I had the previous year. Summer was filled up so I took 2 weeks in September and one in October. Luckily, the October week was when my sister was getting married, so I had to pick it.
Fast forward to last week, I saw that the company had me down for 2 weeks vacation. Thinking it was an error, I talked to my supervisor about it, he emailed his boss, then talked me to again a day or 2 after. Sitting me down in his office, he said he got an email back saying with the amount of time I worked there, I was only due 2 weeks and that it was in the employee manual thing that we got. But he said that was possible the company could try to retroactively take the money they paid me for that third week of vacation that I wasn't supposed to have. Now, my bosses aren't in the union with the rest of us workers. And I guess for that reason, my boss said he can't tell me what to do in this situation, but suggested I just take the 2 weeks vaca for this year. Which of course I'd do, I'm not gonna raise a stink and demand they give me a third week cuz of the apparent error they made last year. That'd be pretty irrational. I told him I wouldn't even raise the issue with anyone unless they tried to essentially bill me for their mistake.
All that being said, he said he was being vague and that in essence, he couldn't tell me what to do but he made it sound like he hinted at what I should do. Which I assume is just take the vaca they're giving me, and learning all this, is pretty much the only move which is fine. But I'm worried I might've missed something he was inferring. Could just be paranoia though.
So basically my plan is to do nothing, unless they try to take the money from my checks later, since I brought the error to the light, like a dumbass lol