As businesses are financially impacted by COVID 19, and unable to continue to pay employees, can employers ask employees to make use of accrued vacation time and sick days and banked overtime, etc. to carry them through that period? Certainly, the employer can ask. The employee may not, however, be obliged to agree.
In all likelihood, employers are going to need to be creative over the coming weeks and months. Circumstances will change as this coronavirus situation evolves and new and different measures may be required. Employers have a few options available to them.
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