Microsoft says sacked employees got overpaid, wants it money back

By Terence Huynh on February 22nd, 2009

After sacking over 1,400 employees just a month back, it has now said that it has overpaid their severance pay to those who got fired and now has asked that those who received them pay back the money due within fourteen days, according to TechCrunch.

It is also reporting that several have been underpaid as well, all because of an “inadvertent administrative error”, Microsoft wrote in a letter.

Microsoft hasn’t gone into great detail on how it happened, but at least they gave instructions to contact them via phone or e-mail – just too bad they are closed on a weekend.

The full document is after the jump.

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