conversation: User (doom2286): "After working for a year and using no paid time off. I have over 50 hours of pto, is my employer required to pay out unused pto on the final paycheck?\n\nEdit 1:I live in Nebraska.\n\nEdit 2 :you all are the best thank you for the help\n\nEdit 3 :i have a job lined up and i am not planning on collecting unemployment only my unused pto\n\nEdit 4: Nebraska requires pto to be paid out regardless of resignation or termination"
  Self: "Not related to your question but definitely make them fire you so you can collect unemployment."
  User (doom2286): "I have a job with Samsung lined up so I'm not worried about it."
  peekaayfire (peekaayfire): "You dont understand-- let/make them fire you so you get severance, and have the courts behind you. If you resign, you waive everything"
  Jmb3930 (Jmb3930): "Not all companies pay severance it is no required."
  therealTurdFerguson_ (therealTurdFerguson_): "Especially after only being there a year"
  focus503 (focus503): "Especially not in Nebraska"
  jacer1099 (jacer1099): "Nebraska does require full payout of PTO though."
  sheriffsally (sheriffsally): "Do some states not require that? Seems odd. How would I not get paid for PTO I earned for time worked?"
  Vic_Kovac (Vic_Kovac): "It depends on how the state looks at vacation time. Is it money that the company has given you that you have saved like matched money on a 401k, or is it a benefit that is a perk of working there like free coffee in the breakroom? You're still entitled to the money but you're not entitled to breakroom coffee or other optional perks like reduced tuition, or an employee discount."
  killermarsupial (killermarsupial): "(Opinion not directed at you for stating a circumstantial fact)\n\nIt's such greedy, insulting bullshit to look at PTO as a "perk" in the same vein as free coffee or employee discount.  I can't imagine an ethical argument otherwise.  Free coffee and employee discount are never* negotiated during the hiring process as a benefits package.\n\n*I guarantee incredibly rare exceptions exist, don't waste your time.\n\nEthics aside, viewing PTO as a company perk is bad for business, bad for employee health, bad for productivity, *and* it is bad for capitalism.  It incentivizes employees to continuously use the hours as they accrue.  And it incentivizes employers to layoff employees who never take time off (and have accrued a large PTO bank)."
  7165015874 (7165015874): "Yup, at one place there were multiple sick people coughing, sneezing, and overall miserable in an office with those low rising partitions because they'd plans to use the PTO the following month. Apparently, if you have PTO, you don't have to offer sick leave in Kansas. "
  