🔺 r/personalfinanceuJToki21·68 days ago
Employer Under Payed me for 8yrs D/T Clerical Error, Refuses to Pay 2yrs of Unpaid Wages
**Edit: Sorry all, I thought I put this in the title, the state is Maryland. My job is not under a Union. I’m still making my way through the comments, but thank you everyone for your constructive advice, and opinions. I also appreciated those who shared their similar experience and what worked for them.** **Edit again: Yes. Underpaid. I can’t edit titles. ** Recently, a series of events led me to question my employment records and discovered my total experience years were wrong. Wrong enough to put me in a completely different pay bracket for the last 8 years. HR admitted this error and my pay rate moving forward was fixed. My job publishes the salary structure and experience based pay brackets, so I’m able to roughly calculate around 30k of wages owed in the last 3 yrs. To clarify HR never disclosed how pay brackets were determined until the pay rate correction. Every past communication where I’ve asked for clarity or explanation on how that was determined, I was basically told it’s not my prerogative to know. I asked about backpay for lost wages which was a direct result of their clerical error, and they promptly refused, citing standards. No formal policy exists supporting this…