As expected, Microsoft drops demand that terminated employees refund part of severance package

[thewayne]

They say that only 25 people were affected. Speculation is all over the place on this one, there's no info as to how much the overpayment was.

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2009/02/reuters_us_microsoft

Comments

[apostate-96.livejournal.com]

Interesting. As I recall, they'd also underpaid some of the folks they'd laid off, and I haven't seen anything about what they're doing about that. I can't help but think that'd be a really good opportunity for them to get some good press if they really wanted it.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I hadn't heard of the underpaid, perhaps that's why they dropped the request: if they have to justify the overpayment, the underpayment may come to light and they're out more money.

[apostate-96.livejournal.com]

On top of the bad press, yeah.