Workers asked to return bonuses after 16 years

[ryoder 1,590]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100519/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_paycheck_bonus_return

Yeah...uh...good luck with that.

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[wildcard451 0]

Pound sand.

[davjohns 1]

Wow! That took some guts to actually ask for that. I can't imagine it having any success. And those people paid taxes on the money. How will the county account for that? The feds? I would guess the recovery will cost more than the loss.

I know it just wouldnt be right to kill all the stupid people that we meet..

But do you think it would be appropriate to just remove all of the warning labels and let nature take its course.

[skydiver30960 0]

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Employees can apply the money to vacation leave or make a cash payment.

This is the last sentence of the story, and the most telling. My guess is they aren't being "asked." Instead, they'll have the choice of paying the cash back or they'll just find their vacation time deducted by the appropriate amount on an upcoming check.

What if somebody doesn't work there anymore?

Elvisio "would be seriously pissed" Rodriguez

[JohnMitchell 16]

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And those people paid taxes on the money. How will the county account for that? The feds?

That would be one of my many concerns. I had a company I worked for dock my pay post-tax by mistake, then return it pre-tax. The idiot doing payroll had a hard time understanding what my beef was.

[BillyVance 35]

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Pound sand.

Shove sand up their vaginas!

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[mwabd1 0]

That is some serious B.S.

I am guessing that there will be several abulance chasers involved with this one.

I wonder if that works both ways.......12 years ago I worked alot of OT that I never got paid for........I'll start typing up the invoice!

.......I hereby reject your reality and instead choose to insert my own!

[riggerrob 643]

Under British Columbia law, if a boss over-pays an employee, the boss is not allowed to deduct that over-payment from later pay-checks.

IOW if a boss over-pays, that is his problem.

[jverley 1]

I do payroll for a living. Technically if you are overpaid in one year and repay it in a subsequent year you must remained taxed for the initial year because the IRS deems that you had use of the money and therefore it was taxable. You cannot get a corrected W-2 for the Income Tax.

These employees should just refuse to pay as the statute of limitations for any claim has long since passed. The county is just trying to close their budget situation by any means possible and if someone repays voluntarily that helps.

John
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[shropshire 0]

Fucking Bean Counters

No offence intended .... much

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Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[JohnMitchell 16]

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I do payroll for a living. Technically if you are overpaid in one year and repay it in a subsequent year you must remained taxed for the initial year because the IRS deems that you had use of the money and therefore it was taxable.

That makes perfect sense. Mine was different in that she took the money out on one paycheck after showing it as income, then put it back in as additional income on my next paycheck. In other words, showing the same $$ as income twice.