<prompt> Human: At the beginning of the year, my wife emailed her manager asking how much vacation she had. Her manager emailed her back saying she had 180 hours of vacation to use. Shes used less than half of that at this point, and emailed her manager last week to let her know the days remaining in the year that she would be taking vacation. Her manager then informed her that she had mistakenly said she had 4 weeks vacation, when she really only had 2 weeks vacation to use for 2017. Obviously this caught my wife off guard as she has travel plans and other plans for what she believed was her remaining vacation time.Can her employer cut down her vacation hours in mid-year? Is there a way my wife can fight this if my employer says No more vacation for 2017?EDIT - Update 1:Going to check on her paystubs ones for January and her most recent for vacation information.Also, she was full time 40 hrs and went to part time 20 hrswk about 3 years ago. She says shes been using the same amount of vacation time all along 4 weeks since she was never told otherwise. This is most likely where the issue came into play. Will update again once we get the paystub info. Thanks.EDIT - Update 2:Thanks everyone for the feedback. Yes I agree she should have been more on top of the situation from the get-go. Personally I cant imagine not knowing exactly how many vacation days I have usedleft at any given point, but thats not how my wife operates. I still want to help her out as this is putting some stress on her.Her vacation days available and used are on her paystubs. It appears she gets a small amount 2 days allotted to her at the beginning of the year, and then accrues more as time goes on. Shes going to ask how much is accrued and how often with her manager. Im not sure why her manager told her 4 weeks if shes not outright given that amount, which is another question shes going to ask her manager.Ultimately, thanks to everyones comments were going to chalk this up to miscommunication and try to work it out with her employer. Also, a lesson learned from my wife which should eliminate this from ever occurring again. Thanks everyone!  <response>: Sounds like everyone made a mistake. The employer maybe initially thought she was eligible for 4, and your wife just assumed she was rather than checking the official company docs. Im also not sure how she didnt know how much time she had left - I am certain this is available to her somewhere so she can make sure its tracked correctly. She thought she was getting 2 extra weeks she wasnt eligible for - thats on her. Id ask NOW to get some unpaid time off for the vacation, and if not time to sell or cancel those tickets and then be more careful next year.EDIT: after seeing your update, it sounds like she may have been incorrectly getting vacation time for 3 years and the employer finally caught it. This would also be in writing or contract somewhere stating how much vacation part timers got and may not have been told to her again when she talked to management and said she wanted to be part time. Id say she got lucky they didnt catch it sooner if its stated that part time doesnt get the same vacation as full time, but they certainly didnt do anything wrong. My company doesnt even give part timers PTO. Any time off they request is unpaid. 