What do you mean by "charging you"?  They don't have to pay you for them, certainly.

taking it out of my pay

I know that you wouldn't get paid they are, like I said, saying they would take it out of my pay. Basically, I would be paying them for taking off time that I "don't have"

Well even the advancement of vacation time and say, you are fired and they take it out of your pay, is illegal under California law.

Fuck it. Kill the thread

tojo2000 wrote:

If I had to guess I'd say it's a miscommunication or a manager being a dick and trying to scare you into staying.

I'd agree. No pay, if your absence can't be approved as vacation, sick-time, FMLA, etc. As for proactively taking money from you for not being present, this is illegal unless you are a contract-worker/freelancer (in which case, the terms of your assignment should have had more input from you, and you won't likely be in breach if the work will still be completed), or are otherwise pre-paid/advanced a portion of your fee/salary. Regardless, an email or phone call to HR should resolve this confusion immediately. A 'deduction' is not the same thing as a 'charge,' tho the end result is still less money.

Most companies these days, seeing that you will not be present for your full-time hours, will deny you any overtime you've worked on the other days you were present. This is, unfortunately, legal, and especially tricky if you have shift-work or any kind of differential.

I will mention one other thing, however. If you have direct deposit, and your bonuses, overtime, or other miscellaneous pay are "improperly calculated" for an upcoming pay period, then they can dock you by automatically deducting from your account. It really depends how your company sets up its pay schedule. Those without this sort of electronic arrangement will simply have it removed from their next check.