Recent content by gcirish2000

Appreciate the personal insight and recommendation. Based solely on the few responses here, the issue clearly involves enough complexity to be referred to outside counsel. Thank you all for your responses.

HR is posing the question. I work for a company that acquired the company described in the scenario, in the legal department, but I do not specialize in employment law, so am looking for guidance as to how to advise HR to proceed. Most likely will simply refer them to external employment law...

I cannot answer that other than to say that obviously the amounts being deducted were small enough not to be missed, and clearly the employees were not checking their payment statements carefully

My inclination was that it could be considered wage theft on the part of the employer?

Yes, it is my understanding that the employees understood the benefit to be an employer-paid one.

My company's HR department recently discovered a clerical error within the employee benefits administration tool we use. Apparently when the system was set up, it was incorrectly set up to deduct the cost of what was intended to be an employer-sponsored benefit from the employees' salaries...