Vermont requires a discharged employee's wages within 72 hours of discharge.
Law: 21 V.S.A. §342 · Rules checked October 2026
If you quit, the deadline is the next regular payday — or the following Friday, if there is no regular payday.
Vermont sets no automatic waiting-time penalty; unpaid wages are recovered through the Department of Labor's wage claim.
Your state lets the employer's own policy decide. If the handbook or your offer letter promises payout of accrued vacation — or the company has a practice of paying it — that promise is enforceable. If the policy says unused vacation is forfeited at separation, the state will generally hold you to it.
The free claim goes to Vermont Department of Labor. It costs nothing and you do not need a lawyer; what you need is the amount computed, the demand already sent where your state rewards one, and the file assembled.
Filing window: set by state law and shorter than people expect — file within weeks, not months.
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General information from the published statute — not legal advice. Penalty figures elsewhere on this site are statutory maximums, with willfulness conditions named where the statute names them.