You should accrue vacation this year, for next year. Starting Jan 1, hire date, or whatever year end/beginning is chosen. Then you should have the entirety to take during that second year on Jan 1.
My company seems to think that when I accrue my vacation on December 31 I should have used it already
Lots of companies have use it or lose it policies. I have been working about 40 years and I have never been able to bank paid time off from year to year.
my company created the rule that if you didn’t use the year’s accrued vacation, come jan 1 of the following year it went away. no stacking
You should accrue vacation this year, for next year. Starting Jan 1, hire date, or whatever year end/beginning is chosen. Then you should have the entirety to take during that second year on Jan 1.
My company seems to think that when I accrue my vacation on December 31 I should have used it already
shoulda/coulda/woulda is not part of my company’s policy. its either do or do not. do not and you never will
Lots of companies have use it or lose it policies. I have been working about 40 years and I have never been able to bank paid time off from year to year.