Payroll problems | Council workers ordered to repay £40k after wage overpayment errors

Council employees in Glasgow have been ordered to pay back £40,000 in wages after a payroll error saw them being paid too much for years.

Glasgow City Council is clawing back the five-figure sum from five employees from the city’s refuse teams, after a recent audit uncovered the technical error which resulted in the workers receiving extra cash for contractual overtime in their payslips.