Overpaid an employee? Here’s how to correct the error and ensure it doesn’t happen again Finance Tracy Angwin 25 July 2019 Overpayments can occur when an employer mistakenly believes an employee is entitled to that salary or because of a payroll error.
One Northern Territory public servant was overpaid $500,000 due to a misplaced decimal point Politics Dominic Powell 31 August 2018 A public servant from the Northern Territory received a half-a-million-dollar payday after an accounting error saw a decimal point misplaced.