Unpaid Leave Deduction Legality

Verified lawyers, *+ years of experience Pearl Pearl Wilson, Lawyer's Assistant Welcome! How can I help with your employment law question? You Hi, I'm an hourly employee in Pennsylvania. I get paid hourly and NOT salary. I work about * hours a day. I also have health benefits from the employer. For the health benefits, the employer takes monies out of each of my paychecks (all good) for my premium or whatever. I work at a school and make *.* an hour. They give me * personal days a year, no vacation, and * sick days a year. My daughter is graduating college in another state. I need 4 days off. I will use personal time for two of the days. For the other two days they said I need to use unpaid time (fine) since I'm not taking off for being sick. The employer wants to charge me *.* a day, per each of the two days I take off. They also do this to others. The $* per day is above what I would be paid if I worked a day. They are staring since I'm taking two days of unpaid time that they will charge me * a day towards my benefits even though I pay for benefits in my checks anyway. They also want me to sign a form authorizing them to take this monies directly from check. I even asked them to itemized the costs and provide the calculation they used to determine I have to pay them $* per day to take time off. I am an hourly employee. Is this legal? The result will be me paying them for a day off in excess of what I would actually make if I worked. Also, if I don't sign their form then they won't approve my time off and state in writing it could lead to discipline. HELP!

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