Correct final pay check

[dbh]

What is the name of your state? live in Illinois and worked in Missouri
After receiving notice of termination but before my last day of work I asked my HR representative how much vaction pay I was due. The company had a webbased time sheet system and all my timesheets were current. After researching my question for 1+ days the HR representative gave me a hand written note indicating that I was due 34.26 hours of Paid time off.

After I left the company, and the day that I was to receive my final pay check and begin my severence pay. I receive my severence pay I received a phone call from the HR rep stating that they had failed to process all of the previously submitted time sheets and that I actually owed them 10.74 hrs of PTO or $380+. which they were deducting from the pay that I was going to get that day. That pay check included both final pay of just under $300 and my severence pay. Not only did they deduct the additional money from my severence pay put they also subtracted some but not all other payroll deductions. The company policy is to deduct any overage of Paid time off from the final paycheck. My severence agreement said I recieve $x. Now I have recieved x minus the overage they have subtracted.

 

[Beth3]

And your question is???

a) Missouri doesn't have any regulation that requires the payout of unused vacation upon separation so this is entirely a matter of company policy.

b) call your employer and tell them you think they've made an error in calculating your vacation and ask if you can come in and see them in person to see whatever documentation they have showing you were "overdrawn" on your paid time off. Be nice when you call. If you are unpleasant when speaking to your supervisor, payroll, HR, or whomever, you'll likely find them a lot less willing to take the time to review this with you and correct any mistake they may have made.

 

[dbh]

Have already had conversation with them

I have already had conversation with them. According to them they are correct and I am wrong. I only had $270 as my final pay and they say I am overdrawn on my Paid Time Off by $384. So from my final pay of $270 the deducted $384, $107 for HealthCare Reimbursement(coverage thropugh end of mon in which I was terminated), $21 for long term disability (which ended on my last day of work). So they deducted a total of $476 from $270. To do this they deducted $206 from my Severence. When asked why they did not deducted for life insurance which ended the last day of work as did LTD they said they ran out of money. My contention is two fold:
1. Should they have paid me for the 34+ hours of Paid time off as they told me they would before they search more and found time sheets they had not processed in over 2 months.
2. if you feel they are allowed to make correct error how can they deduct $476 from my final pay of only $270.