The MGEC labor agreement with the State of Minnesota requires that vacation leave balances must be reduced to 275 hours at least once on or before the last day of the fiscal year, June 30th. If they aren’t voluntarily reduced to that level at some point in the fiscal year, they will be involuntarily reduced by the employer.
To prevent this, make sure that you will be able to use a sufficient amount of vacation time by the end of the fiscal year to ensure you don’t lose this benefit. We understand the difficulty of meeting that requirement during the time of year that tends to be the busiest, but losing hours is undesirable.