Overpayments

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• 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?

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  FAQs

• Itemised pay statements: Recovery of an overpayment is a deduction

  Date:

  9 August 2015

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  Law reports

  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.

• Payslips: deductions for overpayments should be itemised, says EAT

  Date:

  1 October 2014

  Type:

  Law reports

  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.

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

  Type:

  Liveflo

  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.

• Overpayments: Deal with an accidental overpayment made to an employee

  Type:

  Liveflo

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

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

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  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?

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  FAQs

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

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  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?

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  FAQs

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

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  FAQs