SENATE  BILL 
No. 884



   November 9, 1999, Introduced by Senator JAYE and referred to the Committee on Human
        Resources, Labor, Senior Citizens and Veterans Affairs.



        A bill to require an employee to use the value of vacation

   time accrued during a work year by the end of that work year; and

   to prohibit an employer from carrying forward the value of an

   employee's vacation time accrued during a work year to a subse-

   quent work year.

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 1         Sec. 1.  As used in this act:

 2         (a) "Employee" means a person who performs a service for

 3    wages or other renumeration under a written or oral contract for

 4    hire.  Employee does not include an individual in the classified

 5    state civil service whose conditions of employment are regulated

 6    by the civil service commission.

 7         (b) "Vacation time" means a period of vacation available to

 8    an employee in a work year and for which his or her employer is

 9    obligated to pay him or her wages or other benefits.


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 1         (c) "Work year" means a full year in which an employee

 2    provides services to an employer for wages or other remuneration

 3    under a written or oral contract for hire.

 4         Sec. 2.  (1) By the end of each year that an employee has

 5    worked for an employer, and in accordance with any contract for

 6    hire between the employee and employer, the employee shall use,

 7    take the value of, or forfeit vacation time that has accrued to

 8    him or her during that work year.

 9         (2) An employer shall not allow an employee to carry forward

10    vacation time earned during 1 work year to a subsequent work

11    year.


































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