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Pay Discrepancies 2

A follow up on pay discrepancies. The letter you may have received from the Auditor was the option figured by the County that most people would prefer. It is not the only deal you are allowed to make; here is the exact language from the contract:

ARTICLE 27. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

Section 4. The parties understand and agree that if during the course of the implementation and maintenance of the provisions of this Labor Agreement, clerical and/or secretarial errors are made resulting in either an overpayment or under-payment of pay or benefits, that any such errors may be corrected by utilization of administrative processes and procedures so as to bring the payment of pay and/or benefits into compliance with the terms of this Agreement.

A. In this regard, the parties understand and agree that there exists at the time of the negotiation of this Agreement a clerical error related to the payment of holiday pay benefits under Article 11, Sec. 2. Subsec. A which resulted in an overpayment of benefits to certain employees that occurred between October 1, 2008 and September 30, 2011. The ASSOCIATION understands and agrees that the COUNTY will recuperate any overpayment of funds, if any, by using one or more of the following procedures:

1) deductions of future earning for affected employees; and/or,

2) reduction of accrued vacation leave and/or compensatory time accounts for affected employees; and/or,

3) reduction of the rates of accrual of vacation leave as earned;

B. The foregoing adjustments will be determined in consultation with the affected employee by the appropriate County representative.

C. The ASSOCIATION understands and agrees that no contract grievance will be forwarded in connection with any adjustments related to this clerical error.

If you are having trouble working out a deal in your consultation then let us know and we can help address it.

When you go to speak with them take any records you maintained on when you work be it a calendar you wrote dates and times in or your check stub. Compare what they say with your records and figure out exactly what happened. Some have already been adjusted and owe substantially less than what the County originally stated. They made the mistake the first time and could have made a mistake on the correction too.

Also realize the hours they are speaking of are at the pay rate when it occurred. They converted them to today’s rate so fewer hours are needed. (As an example you worked 8.6 then in today’s dollars you may only owe 7 there was a different pay rate each year of the contract so it will vary)



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