If your friend got a "3 month paid vacation" by giving 3 months notice, it just means his company's HR department forgot to terminate his employment and the payroll department never caught the mistake. That's pretty unlikely at most companies.
This actually is most likly due to the factory closure law (aka the Mann Act) that requires a company to still employ anybody who worked at location to be closed for 90 days after notification of the closure is given. In most cases there is not 90 days worth of work for everybody to do and so you are generally paid through that time (a lot of companies will use it as a severence). Of course...there is always the chance their payroll was just staffed by complete idiots too.
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If your friend got a "3 month paid vacation" by giving 3 months notice, it just means his company's HR department forgot to terminate his employment and the payroll department never caught the mistake. That's pretty unlikely at most companies. This actually is most likly due to the factory closure law (aka the Mann Act) that requires a company to still employ anybody who worked at location to be closed for 90 days after notification of the closure is given. In most cases there is not 90 days worth of work for everybody to do and so you are generally paid through that time (a lot of companies will use it as a severence). Of course...there is always the chance their payroll was just staffed by complete idiots too.