A couple members of my crew were underpaid due to what I assume was an issue with the payroll software. The annual leave loading was calculated incorrectly due to some people’s annual leave going into the negatives.
So, I had the pleasure of writing up an email to my manager and payroll staff. Basically saying that I don’t want to point the finger, but you guys stuffed up. Here’s the numbers we are getting, verses the numbers on their payslips. Please fix. Now. I was a bit more professional than that, but damn I was tempted to get the bold and italics formatting into that email.
Being short changed $20-$25 per person, and this probably happened to multiple people across each crew. That’s maybe a couple hundred bucks the company might be running away with. Really grinds my gears, that does.
This happened at my company, also. Specifically around leave loading.
Only the difference is nobody noticed it. The company had simply in the process of dilligence hired an auditing company to go though the books. It was the auditors who noticed that some employees were getting short-changed on their leave loading in some subset of circumstances. The CEO made a big thing to us all about it, telling us they’re now engaged in a full review going back years to find any discrepencies and correct them.
The weird thing is: It would be cheaper to just give everyone a couple hundred dollars. That’d more than cover it. But accountants need to pay their bills, too I suppose.
A couple members of my crew were underpaid due to what I assume was an issue with the payroll software. The annual leave loading was calculated incorrectly due to some people’s annual leave going into the negatives.
So, I had the pleasure of writing up an email to my manager and payroll staff. Basically saying that I don’t want to point the finger, but you guys stuffed up. Here’s the numbers we are getting, verses the numbers on their payslips. Please fix. Now. I was a bit more professional than that, but damn I was tempted to get the bold and italics formatting into that email.
Being short changed $20-$25 per person, and this probably happened to multiple people across each crew. That’s maybe a couple hundred bucks the company might be running away with. Really grinds my gears, that does.
Rant over.
Yeah that’s bad, nice work on getting it corrected!
This happened at my company, also. Specifically around leave loading.
Only the difference is nobody noticed it. The company had simply in the process of dilligence hired an auditing company to go though the books. It was the auditors who noticed that some employees were getting short-changed on their leave loading in some subset of circumstances. The CEO made a big thing to us all about it, telling us they’re now engaged in a full review going back years to find any discrepencies and correct them.
The weird thing is: It would be cheaper to just give everyone a couple hundred dollars. That’d more than cover it. But accountants need to pay their bills, too I suppose.
Yeah, maybe they wanted to make big deal of it. “Look at us, we care for you!” Just pay what’s owed and be done with it.
Cynically, maybe they made a big deal of it so they were not reported for the muckup?
Crikey mate, settle down. Manager and payroll staff don’t know the bullet they dodged there.
Kind of reminds me when I play Civilization VI when launching a nuke.