My question involves employment and labor law for the state of: MA. I was terminated last wednesday, and have not been paid my last check yet. I called the HR department today and was told it was being put through with the regular direct deposit at the end of this week. When I inquired about vacation time, she said that it was being calculated as it had accrued, and that since I had used 1 day of the 10 days we are given for the year, I was only eligible to recieve 16 hours of vacation time paid to me according to the accrual calculations. In addition, she went on to say that since I used 2 days of the 5 sick days we are given, that I actually owe them time and am in the negative for that accrual, so she deducted that amount from my vacation time that I was due. Equalling out to me being paid for 6 hours of vacation time. What Im confused about is, since vacation time and sick time are kept in separate banks and accrued differently, how can they deduct sick time used from my vacation time?

