Engineering Company Forcing Employees To Use Leave Without Pay
I work at a small engineering firm and our company workload has become very low. We typically bill our hours to specific projects, but we have run out of budget on nearly all projects.
We typically charge to Overhead during these times and spend time doing research, trainings, etc.
However the company leader sent out an email saying for the next couple weeks, nobody is allowed to charge to Overhead, even though most employees don’t have billable work. We have to use up all of our PTO (we only get 3 weeks per year), or we just have Leave without Pay (we just don’t get paid).
Is this legal? To force employees to use Leave Without Pay?
I would rather just be laid off / furloughed, so I could collect unemployment.
There might not be billable work for 1-2 months, and I cannot afford to make Zero money in that time.
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