Course description
Overpayments Recovery Workshop
This course will give you an insight into common causes of overpayments and whether you have the right to recover the overpayment with or without the employee’s permission.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
The overpayment of remuneration to employees can occur for many reasons. The rules governing the right to reclaim overpayments are complex and must be managed with caution.
This course clarifies the impact of relevant case law and statutes and identifies the practical considerations for reclaiming overpayments using group discussions and exercises to create an interactive learning environment. From this, participants can devise best practices to take to their organisations for managing overpayments effectively and correctly and furthermore minimise the risk of them arising.
Payroll Co-ordinators, Payroll Supervisors, Payroll Managers & HR Managers working in either an accountancy firm, payroll bureau or an in-house payroll and/or HR team.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
CPD: 3Points
To teach participants case law impacting on the recovery of overpayments to employees and combine this with best practice guidelines to enable them to construct sound procedures for managing and minimising overpayments.
Appreciate:
- How to calculate the gross and net amounts owed
- How to implement overpayment procedures
- How to make the legal recovery of overpayments
- Prepare a corporate guidance policy on overpayments
Training Course Content
Causes of overpayments
- Examining the frequent causes of overpayments
- Establishing the reasons which complicate overpayment recoveries
Mechanisms to reduce incidents of overpayments
- Examining effective procedures which reduce overpayments
- Outlining effective audit processes for analysing overpayment causes and frequencies
- Analysing annual leave policies which can reduce overpayments
Procedures for processing deductions from pay
- Awareness of the deduction details required for payslips
- Categorising the three types of deductions
- Defining wages and their relevance to overpayment recovery
Procedures for recovering overpayments
- Applying the Estoppel Principle to overpayment scenarios
- Interpreting relevant case law impacting on overpayment recovery
- Appreciating the impact the Contract of Employment has on the ability to recover overpayments
- Identifying best practices with recovering overpayments
Using the legal route for recovering overpayments
- Outlining the process for recovering overpayments through the courts
- Appraising the cost/benefit factors in determining if legal action is viable
Reviews
Average rating 5
The course was very informative and gave a lot of background information I would never consider or be able to find myself. It also gave me more confidence in how I recover my ov...
Expenses
- Non-members price: £249.00 + VAT
- Members price*: £199.00 + VAT
Continuing Studies
Creating a payroll procedure manual:
The procedures for managing and minimising overpayments is an essential consideration that Payroll Supervisors and Managers have to incorporate into their procedural documentation.
This course covers the theory and practicalities that need to be considered when designing a procedures document that all payroll departments need to ensure all statutory and contractual obligations are managed efficiently and professionally.
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Such a helpful course and I didn't feel any question I asked was a silly question.