Are my paid time off hours considered accrued if they're written in a bank on my paystub?

I recently quit my part time job. I had 20 vacation hours, 25 optional week hours, and 4 optional day hours. Those other hours are treated exactly as vacation, except during the optional week we can choose to come into work and gain additional hours. They only paid me for the standard vacation hours. Seeing as how we get the other paid time off hours (both optional week and optional days) at the beginning of the year (same as vacation hours), and we have the absolute right to use them at anytime and they are not distinguished from vacation weeks during vacation selection, along with the fact that they are paid out to employees who choose not to use them come December first (our deadline to use vacations as agreed upon in our contract) I assumed these hours were accrued and recognized as vacation hours by the Department of Labor in IL because of that. I complained to my union rep and she told me that the other hours aren't earned and therefore don't apply. There's no specification in our contract as to accrual of these hours, but they do show up on our paystubs. The only thing I can find that suggests they aren't accrued hours is one line in our contract that states these hours aren't subject to pro rata payouts and you need to be currently under payroll to obtain the hours. That being said, if they are accrued hours then that line means nothing because if they're accrued then they're considered vacation hours in IL, and an employer employee agreement can't effectuate the forfeiture of accrued vacation time. So after reading all of that rambling (sorry) my question is are these hours not considered accrued time with my rep being correct, or did some corporate guy lie and confuse her so we would drop the issue?

0 answers  |  asked Aug 8, 2017 9:51 PM [EST]  |  applies to Illinois