Overpayments

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• Type:

  FAQs

  If an employer has a high proportion of employees self-isolating to avoid the spread of coronavirus, can it require other employees to work extra hours to cover the work?

• Date:

  9 August 2015

  Type:

  Law reports

  Itemised pay statements: Recovery of an overpayment is a deduction

  In Ridge v Her Majesty's Land Registry EAT/0098/14, the EAT held that the recovery of an overpayment of wages made the previous month caused by unprocessed absence constituted a deduction for the purposes of s.8 of the Employment Rights Act 1996, and therefore had to be clearly set out and explained on the employee's payslip.

• Date:

  1 October 2014

  Type:

  Law reports

  Payslips: deductions for overpayments should be itemised, says EAT

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that, where an employee's pay for a period is reduced to recover an overpayment for a previous period, that reduction represents a deduction that should be identified on the employee's payslip.

• Type:

  Liveflo

  Overpayments: Deal with an accidental overpayment discovered after employee has left organisation

  Use this overpayments workflow to deal with an accidental overpayment made to an individual where the overpayment is discovered only after they have left the organisation.

• Type:

  Liveflo

  Overpayments: Deal with an accidental overpayment made to an employee

  Use this overpayments workflow to deal with an accidental overpayment made to a current employee.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Where an employer discovers an overpayment to an employee only after the employee has left the organisation, what are its options?

• Type:

  FAQs

  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?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Where an employer deducts an overpayment from an employee's wages, can the employee bring a claim against the employer?

• Type:

  FAQs

  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?

• Type:

  FAQs

  How would an employer bring a civil claim for restitution to recover an overpayment of wages from a former employee?