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EMPLOYERS MADE MISTAKE ON CONTRACT- where do i stand

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  • 30-07-2012 10:51pm
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    nelkelbb
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭


    Hi just looking for some help/advise. I signed my employment contract 3 months ago - however the salary was slightly greater in the contract than what was offered at the interview. My employers have only now discovered this error.Do I have a leg to stand on to argue with them. Surely they signed and agreed the salary on the contract and the fact that it was their error should I know be forced to sign new contract with orinigal salary offer.


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    The Dummy Runner
    Registered Users Posts: 23 ✭The Dummy Runner


    How much difference?


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    #3
    nelkelbb
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭nelkelbb


    Approx 200e


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    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭wexie


    200e a year?

    I'm not sure what your rights would be in this situation. But ask yourself this : do you really want to make trouble with a new employer over just over 16e a month before taxes? (so a tenner at most once all is said and done?)

    200e a month would be a different matter altogether I guess. But even so, if you only signed the contract 3 months ago you might well still be in probationary period.

    I'm not sure I'd be giving them a load of grief in the current climate.


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    Eoin
    Registered Users Posts: 21,257 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    If they had made a mistake and put down 200 less on your contract, would you feel justified in asking them to correct it? Would you be annoyed if they didn't honour the original agreement?


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    The Dummy Runner
    Registered Users Posts: 23 ✭The Dummy Runner


    Not worth the hassle for €200!!


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    nelkelbb
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭nelkelbb


    Its 200e a month-not a new job just a different position in company


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    phoenix999
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 581 ✭✭✭phoenix999


    They will be really pissed if you dont sign the new contract. A friend of mine had a mistake on his contract (it was 4 months longer than it should have been). He was on a substantial salary. Employer asked him nicely if he would sign a new contract reducing the job term. He got a solicitor to send a letter saying the contract was binding and he expected it to be honoured. And not surprisingly the company (who didn't force the issue) told him his services were no longer required when the contract expired. If you want to stay in the job cooperate with them. But suggest they could compensate you for the error


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    tatli_lokma
    Registered Users Posts: 3,332 ✭✭✭tatli_lokma


    yeah perhaps sign the new contract, but negotiate that the money already received does not need to be repaid and ask for a set salary review date. I know €200 is a lot of money, but is it worth losing your job over later down the line. And in fact you were not expecting it initially, so accepted the job on the correct terms. If it were me I would sign the new contract, but get it in writing that the 'pay cut' was due to an admin error on the first contract and that you don't have to repay any money already paid to you.


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    nelkelbb
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭nelkelbb


    Cheers everyone. good advise- The only thing that is making me mad over the whole thing is the way i was made feel and the way it was put to me- they never said they made a mistake just that I should have told them it was wrong- I was feel like it was my fault and that I robbed them


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