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Microsoft Does Right by Laid-Off Workers
By: Darryl K. Taft
2009-02-23
Article Rating:    / 6
There are 7 user comments on this IT Management story.
After initially asking for repayment of overpaid severance, Microsoft tells former employees who were laid off that they do not have to pony up individual amounts ranging from hundreds to $5,000 each.Microsoft has taken a page out of the Spike Lee playbook and done the right
thing.
The software giant has done an about-face on asking
laid-off employees to pay back overpayments in severance made due to a
clerical error on the company's part.
According
to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Microsoft's senior vice president of
human resources, Lisa Brummel, said she "personally called 22 of the 25"
people who had received notices that they would have to pay back the
overpayments.
The former Microsoft employees affected were part of the group of 1,400
workers the company laid off in January.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter Joseph Tartakoff interviewed Brummel,
who said the overpayments "ranged from hundreds of dollars to $5,000 per
employee."
According to the Post-Intelligencer, "I don't think it's worthy of us
asking them to make that payment back to us," Brummel said.
In addition, the article said, "20 employees were
underpaid severance, and Microsoft has now paid them what they were owed."
| | Reader Comments: Microsoft Does Right by Laid Off Workers | | >>> Post your comment now!
| | The right thingNot sure the motivation is important to those who received the money. End result was that Microsoft "did the right thing." Posted At: 03-03-09 By: J Koontz | | | | | | Emotionally, yes...I agree that sure feels good as an idea. We do need to keep jobs in the USA by buying American, and that includes not out-sourcing, when possible.... Posted At: 03-03-09 By: archetuthus | | | | | | image?One should look at the accounting dept to ascertain how the error was made in the 1st place. How many more simple(?) mistakes have been made over... Posted At: 03-03-09 By: ray | | | | | | SO!!!!!!!!!!!!!I remember in the Army when I was paid 250.00 a month. They made a mistake and over paid a reenlistment bonus (we thought it was right, but a month... Posted At: 02-28-09 By: amgold | | | | | | MS's real agendaI agree with JohnB 100%. They got caught. Otherwise, they'd still be hounding the laid-off individuals for "their" money back. Posted At: 02-27-09 By: Irene King | | | | | | Microsoft had a change of heart?I suspect that the reason Microsoft backed off on getting money back was due primarily to negative publicity, not because it was the right thing to... Posted At: 02-27-09 By: JohnB | | | | | | Bring support home to USAMicrosoft should consider beinging their support program
home from India to the USA... Then they could rehire the
people they laid off and make... Posted At: 02-24-09 By: Don | | | | | | >>> Post your comment now! | | | | | |
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