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Update: I texted my HR saying I had a question about my paycheck, they got back to me immediately saying they thought they knew what it was and just offered to credit the 7 hours of vacation back. I believe this was a mistake that just slipped by and I'm perfectly happy that they credited the vacation time back. All is well.

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My employer pays up to 8 hours of "bonus" every week, to account for finishing a scheduled job early. It is clearly defined how and when we earn our bonus. Our pay week runs sunday-saturday and we work sunday-thursday, and on a rotation we'll occasionally get a mandatory extra friday job.

I had put in a vacation request several weeks prior to take off friday 4/17 through saturday 4/25. I covered friday just in case I was on the rotation for the extra friday, but this week I wasn't.

I worked the week of sun 4/12 through thursday 4/16 and earned my bonus, I should have gotten 7 hours of bonus pay.

Instead they used 7 hours of my vacation. I double checked, I wouldn't have been on the rotation for the friday job, so they didn't need to use my vacation to cover the extra. Friday isn't a normal day we work, it's equivalent to a saturday in a normal schedule.

I feel like they did me dirty, taking 7 hours of vacation instead of paying me the 7 hours of bonus I had already earned by thursday. I'll have to work 3 weeks to make up that 7 hours of vacation 😞