As of Aug 31, 2009 my employment was terminated with a company I had been employed by for 7 years. I accrued 4 weeks vacation annually and because of the workload in 2008 was unable to take all my vacation time. In Dec I had over 25 days carried over. I was told by the then CEO that I had to take 15 days of the 25 by March 2009 as the company policy is to only carry over 10 days per year. Now there is a new CEO who terminated me and refuses to pay me for the carried over vacation. He also says the 15 days I took in March were for 2009 vacation. They are now only willing to pay me for one week of vacation. Is this legal? Should I obtain an attorney to fight this? Also, I was a whistleblower over misappropriated monies and I think this has something to do with the request for my termination. Not sure what I should do now.