Overpayments

New and updated

• Date:

  11 August 2022

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Homeworking: Employee who moved north not entitled to London weighting

  In McKenzie-Bayliss v The Crown Prosecution Service, an employment tribunal held that a homeworking employee who relocated to North-East England but carried out work for the South-East region was no longer entitled to receive pay at the London rate.

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  Interactive flowcharts

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

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

• Type:

  Interactive flowcharts

  Overpayments: Deal with an accidental overpayment made to an employee

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

• Date:

  1 October 2014

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  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:

  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?

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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?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Where an employer has accidentally overpaid an employee, what might be a "reasonable" programme of repayment or deductions?