If a national company gives employees vacation time at their one year anniversary and they then have to use it by "year's end", is it legal to allow their California employees to only start accruing AFTER one year of employement?
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California does not require an employer to provide vacation time. If an employer chooses to, they are permitted to delay when vacation pay begins to accrue. What your employer does in other states is irrelevant to this issue. There is one caveat. Your employer cannot delay accrual as a subterfuge to weed out short term employees. For example, if your employer says you get no vacation in your first year, 2 months in your second year, and 1 month every year after that, this is obviously a subterfuge to avoid paying vacation to short term employees. However, even though the law is not on your side, you have a lot of leverage to request equal treatment. In fact, the high cost of living in California should mean you get paid more than employees in other states for the same work. If this is not true, I would get a group of co-workers together and discuss the issue with your boss.
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