Employer overpaid wages but now wants money back!

dmliverpool

That is a lot to be overpaid each month and not to notice. If it happened since being first employed and not knowing any different. Then morally you may have a case. However it is government money with no statue and they will get the money back one way or another, if not from you but by sacking one of your colleagues (in a sad way).

This may not sound nice but I don't this anyone has made this point, they can just dock you wages regardless of what you say anyway and just put it in writing, you would then have to prove to them that you do not feel it necessary to pay them back.

When they do this they will be in a tricky spot as they could lose you as an employee, in which case on you final pay day they will take the lot and then demand the remaining balance.

I would organise it to be docked from my wage at a rate that I could afford.

anamenottaken

yvonne13 wrote: »

I was in a similar situation and when I noticed pay had increased by £200 I went straight to HR.

They said it was an error due to a new database system they had installed and that I had to give the money back. I gave them the money back the next day by doing a money transfer.[/QUOTE]

It would have been better to instruct them to make the adjustment the following payday.

The reason for this is that tax and NI (employees and employers) would have been paid and this will not be recouped simply by your paying the cash back.

GavB79

Uncertain wrote: »

It really gets up my %$£& the way people jump on this forum and attempt to ram their claimed "morals" down people's throats. :mad:

In what circumstances is wanting to keep money not due to you the moral option?

real1314

GavB79 wrote: »

In what circumstances is wanting to keep money not due to you the moral option?

You visit a shop. There is an item on a shelf with tag for £10. The item should be £15 but a shopper swapped it as a "joke".

You take it to the desk and hand over a £20 note.

You are given £10 change and a receipt and leave the shop.

The shopkeeper comes after you and says you owe £5.

I bet you'd keep the item and £10.

Or, you think you've been overpaid by work. You question it. They say "no, it's right", you spend the money. They then say, 15 months later, "oops, sorry, we added it up wrong, can you give us £3k back?"

GavB79

real1314 wrote: »

You visit a shop. There is an item on a shelf with tag for £10. The item should be £15 but a shopper swapped it as a "joke".

You take it to the desk and hand over a £20 note.

You are given £10 change and a receipt and leave the shop.

The shopkeeper comes after you and says you owe £5.

I bet you'd keep the item and £10.

Or, you think you've been overpaid by work. You question it. They say "no, it's right", you spend the money. They then say, 15 months later, "oops, sorry, we added it up wrong, can you give us £3k back?"

I.e. not the circumstances in the OP then.

rigsby1967

Uncertain wrote: »

It really gets up my %$£& the way people jump on this forum and attempt to ram their claimed "morals" down people's throats. :mad:

The OP asked a technical question with the word have underlined. I wonder if these people would be so moral if they were in the same position? :A

No, thought not. :rotfl:

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Well said :T, if i could thank you again for this post i would .

rigs

Mands

cashbackproblems wrote: »

I know some people i think are just jealous that others have work/good qualification that put them down with misinformation e.g. mands etc.

I've only just seen this; please post a link to the misinformation that you say that I gave.

I disagreed with you, that isn't the same as giving incorrect information

Mands