Overpaid in last salary payment

[crouchingpigeon]

Long story short, I recently finished working for a company having completed a three month notice period in full.

Originally I gave a leave date in my notice letter of a Friday, but within a couple of weeks or so of handing this in I realised I would need to finish a day earlier as we were away for a long weekend. I told HR about this and they told me to speak to my line manager which I did. I wasn't told to put anything in writing and carried on for the next 9 weeks or so without issue. Had my last day, received my leaving card etc, everyone new I was going on the Thursday.

Next day I get a call from my manager at lunch time saying that HR have queried where I am and that I should have been in. Anyway, I've now received a letter stating I've been overpaid for a day as I took holiday that I wasn't entitled to and that they expect repayment within the next 7 days. They've also misquoted how many holidays I should have had remaining at the end of my term but not sure that's relevant.

Anyway, I just wanted to canvas opinion on this, the figure quoted for the day is gross and does not reference any tax or NI that I would have paid on it.

Should I just pay back the figure quoted, or should I knock off 32% and pay that. Or should I go with option 3.....?

For clarity, we're talking about £100 here.

[Eric Mc]

How much did they ACTUALLY overpay you (net of tax and NI)?

That is the only amount you are obliged to pay back to them - assuming their assertion is correct , of course.

So, I would ask them to show their calculations of -

a) how they have arrived at the figure they are quoting and

b) the tax and NI they deducted from it.

[crouchingpigeon]

Salary calculator says my salary at the time, including sal sac pension came to £106.92 gross. This is the figure they have quoted as owed to them.

According to the same calculator my take home from that is £83.70

[Eric Mc]

crouchingpigeon said:

Salary calculator says my salary at the time, including sal sac pension came to £106.92 gross. This is the figure they have quoted as owed to them.

According to the same calculator my take home from that is £83.70

Get them to work that out and state it in a letter.

[Beetnik]

Tight wads. Offer £50 in full and final settlement failing which ask them to reissue your final payslip showing the correct figures at which point you'll reimburse them.

[4x4Tyke]

This is their mistake, agree with demanding they issue a corrected pay slip, verify it yourself and repay anything over paid.

[Drumroll]

What about accumulation of leave? I have just finished work and was pleasantly surprised at how much leave payment I received.

[crouchingpigeon]

Leave was already accounted for in my salary payment so this extra day counts as one of the days I had accrued (and been paid for).

Thanks for the advice, I've gone back to them and told them to rework the calculations and come back to me.