Does anyone have an insight whether HPE is required to pay the unused vacation time if i leave with a 2-week notice ? i heard from former colleagues in the Plano campus they didn't get their unused vacation reimbursed after they left; even with a 2-week advance notice. Is this legal ??
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You are "technically" eligible for bonus if laid off in 4th quarter but 99% of groups zero out the bonus for WFRd folks and use the money for others. Seen it many times. Expect zero
My experience is it depends on your manager. I turned in 4 days notice the end of March - didn't want to be part of the 'next phase' and just decided I'd had enough. My manager post dated my departure to add on the 5 days of vacation I had accrued so my end date was entered as 4/7. Maybe if they got caught doing that, it might be a problem, but the information I heard was they had done that for a few other people on the team as well. I live in TX so it is typically a use it or lose it proposition with vacation accruals. I thought that was a pretty kind gesture, under the circumstances.
Take your vacation days as you earn them. HPE required us to save a certain number of days for the December shutdown and I had planned to take an extra 3 days along with the required shutdown days. I got my walking papers in December so there was no time to use my days.
I made the mistake of actually thinking that I would be around in January and get to use what I had accrued. Had I any idea this would happen I would have said "screw the shutdown" and used my time in November.
Nope, take your vacations days then quit
"Any company owns your patent that you produced as an employee, so not sure why anyone would expect some payout from that after being terminated."
The issue is, HPE will owe you for all that extra work you did, to get the patent truly ready to submit... In the week or two between when you finished your work, and they owe you the money, THAT is when they'll lay you off, and NOT pay you the money! Legally, fine-print-wise, apparently OK, but ethically, it stinks to the High Heavens! I would not put it past HPE to deliberately plan to do it this way! So, do NOT put in for too many patents at once, or they will have more incentive to lay you off!
You want to leave the company and expect them to make it easy for you with benefits payouts? Wake up and grow up.
No, you don't get a bonus if WFRd in any quarter. Why would any manager give someone leaving a bonus?
No, you don't get paid unused vacation unless it is state law, such as Cal. Idaho certainly doesn't, as I know people laid off there, so the person commenting on that is wrong. And for people whining about what a big loss this is it, you are full of crap: First of all, you accrue it throughout the year, so leaving in April means nothing. What have you earned... four days? Second, if you get to December and still haven't taken a day off, that's on you. You aren't that important and the work will be there when you return.
Complaining about OT as an exempt salaried employee? No such thing as OT.
Any company owns your patent that you produced as an employee, so not sure why anyone would expect some payout from that after being terminated.
If people don't like it, then they need to start voting Democrat and joining unions. HPE isn't doing anything wrong or unethical. Apple, Google, and everyone else does the same thing.
If you are WFRd in Q4, you get your bonus. Don't know about any patent incentives.
Texas is known to be a state where HPE can, does, and will rip you off of your un-used vacation. I've been there, done that!
They'll also rip you off of any outstanding bonus or incentive payments (that are legally possible), such as patent-filing payments!
There are other states that require you be paid for unused vacation. They include Colorado, Illinois, Idaho besides California. There are a few others, too.
Yes, HPE rips you off of your un-used vacation, in all or almost all states except for California, where "ripping you off" of your un-used vacation is outlawed. This is accurate as best as I know, and I am 95% sure of it, or so, or more so... I personally was ripped off in this manner, after busting butt, trying to save my job, working TONS of over-time, and giving up vacations, and getting laid off anyway, after which they hired some young kid who hardly ever shows up for work before 10 AM, I am told... If you want to keep your job, do NOT get old, but also don't think tons of over-time, etc., thinking that this will save your job either...