Everyone loves a bonus point, the right? You get rewarded for your hard work and you have a little extra spending money to spend on rainy days. So when checking your bonus is a bit higher than usual, are you really going to complain? Do you alert your boss in case they overpay you? Do you return the excess amount? Looks like some Honda employees have had that problem.
After sending bonus checks to workers at the Marysville, Ohio plant, Honda now ask the employee to send the percentage of the bonus back to the Honda company – means the worker is in debt to their employer.
Marysville factory use about 3,900 workers, split between Honda and Acura car production lines. The plant produces the Accord, CR-V, TLX, NSX, and Integra, and is home to Acura’s Performance Manufacturing Center, where certain Type S models are assembled by hand.
It remains unclear how many of those 3,900 workers received bonuses, and how many are now expected to return some of that money. People with a few extra dollars in their checks were notified of their overpayment through a company memo detailing options for those employees to return the amount. Excess: Honda will accept a lump sum, an installment plan that spans a number of future paychecks, or a deduction from any upcoming bonuses.
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Jalopnik reached out to Honda for comment, and received the following statement: “Earlier this month Honda provided bonus payments to its associates, some of whom received overpayments. Issues related to compensation are a sensitive matter and we are working quickly on this item to minimize any potential impact to our associates. Since this is a personnel issue, we have no further information to provide related to this matter.”
While the concept of repaying your employer sounds ludicrous, the law supports Honda’s efforts to get back that bonus money. Employers who overpay workers can, in fact, recoup the excess payments back — even, if necessary, by suing the overpaid employees. So next time your bonus check looks a little too generous, maybe set some of that money aside. You never know when your bosses will want it back.
