I’ve been overpaid by my nurse employer – can I keep the money?

Advice for nurses on what to do if you find an unexpected ‘bonus’ in your pay packet – is there an obligation to inform your employer and is the money legally yours?

Each month you take home the same amount in your pay packet, but last month, because of a mistake by your employer, you got paid twice as much.

Or maybe it was even more, like the chap in Chile who was reported last year to have received 300 times his normal monthly salary.

Now your colleagues are telling you that, because it is a mistake by your employer, you don’t have to tell anyone and you get to keep the cash. Nice as this would be, your colleagues are not