Microsoft has to hit up laid-off workers for money

rookietrucker · Feb 23, 2009

Microsoft has to hit up laid-off workers for money (AP)

Posted on Mon Feb 23, 2009 5:18PM EST

SEATTLE - A few weeks after launching the first wide-scale layoffs in its history, Microsoft Corp. admits it screwed up a key part of the plan.

The company is asking some laid-off employees for a portion of their severance back, saying an administrative glitch caused the software maker to pay them too much.

Lou Gellos, a Microsoft spokesman, would not say how many of the 1,400 workers let go in January were overpaid, or by how much. Microsoft has said severance would be calculated by length of service and position in the company.
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More here>> http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090223/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_overpaid_severance

rookietrucker · Feb 24, 2009

Microsoft Tells Laid-off Workers to Keep Extra Severance Pay

Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 9:12 AM PST

Microsoft will let about two dozen laid-off workers who were overpaid severance keep the money, the company's head of human resources said Monday afternoon.

The decision was a quick turn-about for the company, which last week sent letters to some of the 1,400 employees who were laid off in late January, asking them to return some of their severance because of an "administrative error." The demand received wide coverage after TechCrunch posted a copy of one such letter over the weekend.

"In the normal course of business, we may underpay or overpay in a bonus situation," said Lisa Brummel, the senior vice president of human resources for Microsoft. "If we overpay, we ask that the money be returned. Severance is not unlike that.
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More here>> http://www.pcworld.com/businesscent...doff_workers_to_keep_extra_severance_pay.html

Looks like the bad publicity made them change there minds.

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