<prompt> Human: This last Monday, my boss called me in and stated that he just discovered that I have used 120 hours of leave when I am only given 80 hours to use. He wants to take 40 hours of leave from one of my last two paychecks for this year.Is this legal? I did not always ask for him to remove hours from my vacation time on days I was out sick, but he would anyways. Just looks for help on a situation where I have little to no knowledge.EDIT: Well this was a quick one. Appears it is legal. No complaints here as it does make sense, I just wanted to make sure I wasnt being taken advantage of as my boss has nickle and dimed other employees before.  <response>: My company allows me to go negative. That is, if I got two weeks a year, they will allow me to take three, but that comes out of my next years time. If I were to leave the company early before a certain date, I would have to pay that time back on my paychecks.Your boss is doing something legal, and this has been discussed already, but if youve been there for a while and dont have plans on leaving at least for a year and dont need to go anywhere, try to negotiate. Offer to take the 40 hours out of your upcoming years employment.Admittedly, I have white collar job and work at a large software company, if you were to, say, work in retail or in the restaurant industry, or any hourly job really, this is far less likely to work because they dont expect everyone to stay that long especially if you did something like this, but maybe this will help.Read up on your companys sick policy and try not to get hit hard again. 