CSL Plasma Beats Suit Over Deducting Vacation Time for Sick Days

A CSL Plasma Inc. employee failed with a proposed class lawsuit challenging its policy of deducting workers’ days missed for illness from their vacation time rather than their mandatory paid sick leave under California law.

The former worker asserted that the human plasma collection company’s paid-time-off policies violate various provisions of the California Labor Code, including with regard to vested vacation wages, the US District Court for the Southern District of California said. But CSL Plasma was right that his “legal theory is not cognizable under California law,” the court said.

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