FAQs

All items: Overpayments to employees

Where an employer discovers an overpayment to an employee only after the employee has left the organisation, what are its options?
Where an employer has accidentally overpaid an employee, is the employer obliged to obtain the employee's written consent before making deductions from their salary to reclaim the overpaid amount?
Where an employer deducts an overpayment from an employee's wages, can the employee bring a claim against the employer?
What should the employer do where a former employee agrees to repay an overpayment of wages discovered after they left the organisation but subsequently fails to repay the money?
How would an employer bring a civil claim for restitution to recover an overpayment of wages from a former employee?
Where an employer has accidentally overpaid an employee, what might be a "reasonable" programme of repayment or deductions?
What should the employer do where an employee agrees to repay an overpayment of wages but subsequently fails to repay the money?
Where an employer has accidentally overpaid an employee can it reclaim the overpayments?

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