Microsoft overpaid severance
Seattle PI | at | by Mike
Microsoft acknowledged over the weekend that it overpaid severance to some of the 1,400 employees it laid off last month and has asked the former employees to pay back the money.
Microsoft readies tech training for up to 2 million people The company also said it had underpaid some laid-off employees.
"An inadvertent administrative error occurred that resulted in an overpayment in severance pay by Microsoft," said one letter to an ex-employee, which was posted on the TechCrunch blog Saturday.