If your employer overpays you, can you keep the money? You can if you’re lucky, says Roisin WoolnoughPayroll blunders are a common occurrence. According to a survey by ICM Research, 44% of employees have been overpaid by their employer, with 36% of those overpayments being sums of £250 or more. A third of those happy workers did not notify their employer, pocketing the extra cash instead. When Catherine Betts was temping for an agency based in Cambridge, she was paid once for a shift that she didn’t do. “They called me up one day to do some work, which I later cancelled,” she says. “I looked at my bank account two weeks later and realised I had been paid for the job I didn’t do. It didn’t even match with the days that I was supposed to work, and they had paid me £20 over what it would have been. They never said anything about it and neither did I.” Continue reading…
Source : theguardian.com
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