A week ago now, I discovered that I had not been paid for statutory holidays in 2025. I am not sure why I didn’t notice during the year that my cheque never really changed, guess I wasn’t really checking carefully at all.

So, I submitted a ticket with HR and we worked with payroll to submit the time that I had missed. In our investigation, with our new payroll system, we discovered that I was also overpaid OT in January, February and March of 2025. I work 12 hour shifts, and for everything over 8 hours, I was paid time and a half and shouldn’t have been.

So, IBM owes me stat holiday pay, and in turn, I owe them for the additional paid time. They have a policy that when there needs to be a clawback in salary that it’s taken over time so it’s not disruptive and employees can continue to pay bills and what not.

Late Tuesday, I checked my lay statement and was shocked to discover that ALL of the 2024 clawback had been applied to my cheque that will be issued on Friday and that my net pay was $0.  Not good.

Anyway, after quite a bit of back and forth, I think I’ll get my normal pay on Monday including, I hope, all of the missed time and then we can start a schedule to slowly repay the overpayment.  This is all theoretical, of course and I don’t trust them as far as I can throw them, so, we’ll see anyway.

I should get an additional almost $4000 less taxes, the keyword being “should”. I await Monday to see what I actually get and if I need to get a hold of HR and payroll again. For the most part, HR has been very helpful, payroll, not so much.

Wish me some luck.