| | By Nick Farrell in Rome @ Monday, February 23, 2009 8:10 AM
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| | Loadsamoney Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has decided that he might have paid his ex-employees too much when he laid off 1,400 of them recently and now wants their severence pay back.
 When Microsoft laid off 1,400 employees last month it apparently paid them too much in redundancy money, according to Techcrunch
Now the company has decided that those employees should pay back the money and has asked those it fired to be nice and give it back.
In a letter sent to employees, Microsoft said that an inadvertent administrative error occurred that resulted in an overpayment in severance pay by Microsoft. We ask that you repay the overpayment and sincerely apologise for any inconvenience to you.'
Microsoft confirmed it has asked for the money back but refused to say more claiming it was 'a private matter between the company and the affected people.'
It is not clear how many of the 1,400 people were over paid, or how much Microsoft lost. However it also seems that some employees did not get enough severance pay too.
Microsoft did not say if it was giving this money to the laid off employees. The letter hints that Microsoft might get a bit nasty if the money is not given back, perhaps in the form of tax action. X
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