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Subject: Re: Told I've been overpaid Posted on: Fri, 9 May 2008 03:00:25 +0100


"Top Man" wrote in message
news:68fitoF2sdkg3U1@mid.individual.net...
> At my workplace I do extra training work with students for which I get a
> small amount of money extra.
>
> In February I got a little more more than normal (about £400) but this was
> covered by a letter from my employer telling me that I was to receive this
> higher amount a few weeks before.
>
> Yesterday I was told that my employer made a mistake and the amount paid
> should have been what it normally is!!! They will recoup the extra pay by
> not paying me for the extra work I do until the money is repaid.
>
> Is this legal?

Of course it's blady legal!

If your employer discovers they have overpaid you they are entitled to
recover that overpayment. Choosing to do so by asking you to do extra
training work in lieu of it is probably the fairest way for them to recover
it rather than simply deducting it from your next salry payment or demanding
that you summarily repay it.

> After all I have a letter from them saying that was the money to be paid
> to me and that's what I got!!!

The letter may have been a mistake on their part. You are not entitled to
keep an overpayment as a result of an error made by your employer. You need
to work out for yourself whether you have been overpaid or not.

--
Joe Lee