In IA, employers are not required to provide workers with vacation benefits, either paid or unpaid. However, it can choose to voluntarily choose do so. To the extent that it does, it must comply with the terms of its own established company policy or any applicable employment contract/union agreement. Accordingly, only if the employer has a policy, contract or agreement requiring the payment of earned vacation time upon an employee's separation must it provide it. In other words, as a general rule, a departing worker is not automatically entitled to pay for earned but unused vacation time.