COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A company employing thousands of people in central Ohio is asking its workers to pay the company. Honda sent a memo to employees at its Marysville factory, saying it overpaid bonuses and needs that extra money back.
Employees say returning the money will be hard for their families,
but an attorney not involved with this case said Honda is properly going about
collecting the overpayments.
“Not a lot of people can handle this kind of a hit,” said the wife
of a Honda employee, who spoke with NBC4 on the condition that she or her
husband not be identified.
https://kfor.com/news/honda-requests-cash-from-employees-after-overpaid-bonuses/
People can say, "Company's mistake, my money, I'm not giving it back."'
Yeah, you are. If you fight the company over a mistake, you will be labeled several kinds of miscreant and maybe lose promotion points, not to mention any reputation for honesty.
"8% of his bonus payment, amounting to hundreds of dollars"
ReplyDeleteToo bad the story didn't include the total amount of overpaid bonuses.
So, this guy has to pay back $200-900.
Hopefully Honda will do this over 90 days so it's not too painful.
But yes, you do owe the over payment back.
In 1981 I took an Active Guard/Reserve position with a mechanized infantry company, active duty pay and benefits. One question during in-processing, "Do you want advance pay?" You bet. That newspaper copy editor check will run out before my first Army check arrives. So I got an advance pay. And got another one two weeks later. One check the Army took all back at one fell swoop when monthly pay arrived, the other over six months. Getting recovery spread out is better.
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