Our former payroll employee accidentally overpaid two employees for several payroll periods. How can we legally get that money back?
After explaining the situation to the employees, ask them to sign a written wage deduction authorization agreement allowing the company to deduct the wage overpayments from their future paychecks in certain specific amounts. If they refuse, the company may either delay any anticipated pay raises or give the employees a temporary reduction in the pay rate in order to recoup the amounts in question. Try to keep the pay reduction as small as possible (as much under 20% as possible) to avoid giving them good cause to quit and file unemployment claims, and be sure to give the notice of pay reduction in writing. Q: I fired an employee for falsely claiming he was authorized to work in the U.S., and did not pay him for the time he worked. Now TWC is telling me I have to pay him. If he was not legally authorized to work in the U.S. and had no right to work, how does he have a right to file a claim? A: Neither the FLSA nor the Texas Payday Law condition an employee’s right to be paid on their st
