SENATE BILL No. 126

February 6, 2001, Introduced by Senator JAYE and referred to the Committee on Human

Resources and Labor.

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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