Reply #16: Cashing the check doesn't release them from any obligations,

[elehhhhna]

verbal or written. The Dept of labor's local WAGE CLAIM Division will give you info over the phone, send out the simple paperwork, and help solve this claim. If it's your word vs. theirs on the vaca time, you'll probably win it. The last days pay should be NO PROBLEM--assuming you're salaried (no OT pay) hey, you showed up, they owe you, problem solved.

Odds are also high they've been filed on for wage claims before and they'll cough up the bux as soon as they get the letter from the DOL.

(I'm ex-HR Consulting & have done both sides of this filing business.) Cash the check and call the Local DOL Monday asasp.

I's also like to address the "emotional counteroffer"--that's exactly what companies do to WOMEN they don't want to replace (right away), and you were a classic example--textbook description, really! Men get $$$, women; a guilt trip. Why? Because it works! Don't fall for that one again. Once you give notice, GO!

So, live & learn--a better job will come from this!