Got overpaid for 18month period- over 6.5k!

Sneezy

Can you do it as overtime/additional hours? If you work an extra 12 hours a week then you would pay it off in just over a year (allowing for holidays and based on you earning 20k - however based on you earning 25k if you did 9 hours a week then you would pay off in just over a year) - is that a possibility at all?

Smi1er

egraphixstudios wrote: »

I started with my current employers in June 2008. I recieved a P60 in May 2009 - showed around 20k for the yearly earnings (which is right- my salary should be around 20k).

I got my p60 for 2009-2010 period and in there i noticed it had my yearly earnings as 25k! I questioned this with the HR dept and they eventually came to me saying they had made a mistake and placed me on the wrong grading since day 1 and are now asking for the re-payments.

I have been asked to re-pay over 6.5k! :eek:

Now where do i stand? the mistake was done by the HR dept and they have said they were responsible for this mistake. But they are partly trying to place the fault on myself for not looking at my wage and *apparantly* calculating my yearly earnings...they are simply trying to pass the buck.

Please advise...

Funny how people don't notice an overpayment of £6.5K:D But they always notice underpayments.....:rotfl:

DVardysShadow

egraphixstudios wrote: »

I have spoken to my department director and he has apologised for the mis-hap. He mentioned if it were upto him that he would write the debt off, but since the HR director has to be involved the amount due may be written off if agreed, otherwise the amount due would be reduced and I would decided on payment amounts that suits me (within reasonable terms). The employee who placed me on the wrong grading since day 1 will undergo a disciplinary action to the highest level and she may very well loose her job.

It is the kind of thing which would make me want to move on.

UnderPressure

Sounds like on one hand you work for a half decent company the value you, the poor HR girl that got it wrong though

JCS1

Disciplinary sounds a bit harsh for the person who put you on the wrong grade. When I did payroll, it was always signed off by myself and a person from HR each month so the responsibility was joint. We also used to do internal audits of salaries every 6 months.

egraphixstudios

The problem work was my grade was 4 on all the paper work, all the signed documents etc. but she accidently placed me on grade 5 on the HR software system. Now the HR woman in question has made several similair mistakes in the past, and I think this was her 4th mistake- a really really big one! So the disciplinary is actually not harsh.

Savvy_Sue

egraphixstudios wrote: »

The problem work was my grade was 4 on all the paper work, all the signed documents etc. but she accidently placed me on grade 5 on the HR software system. Now the HR woman in question has made several similair mistakes in the past, and I think this was her 4th mistake- a really really big one! So the disciplinary is actually not harsh.

Except that in a decent payroll system, every action like this would be 'signed off' by someone else.

And when I say 'signed off', that would be 'check this is right and sign off', not just 'sign this piece of paper which I'm handing to you', which is what usually happens in my job, drives me nuts!

We realised a couple of years ago that a colleague was on the wrong salary: she hadn't noticed because the first payment had included some backpay. When we ran the paper trail, it looked as if someone had read out some figures over the phone to our external payroll provider - we had hand-written figures for a number of changes on a sheet of paper. The hand-written figures were right. The payroll provider had a note that someone had phoned, and a different set of figures in front of them. They couldn't say WHO had phoned them, because they hadn't made a note of that.

To this day we don't know if the person at our end read out the wrong figures, or the person at the other end heard the wrong figures. I know it wasn't my fault, as I was on extended sick leave. Since then, EVERYTHING must be confirmed in writing, with two signatures. I can email, but it must be followed up with a letter.

I always ASK the manager to check my workings, but I don't know how often they do ...