MIAMI VALLEY — Some Honda of America employees are still experiencing issues with getting correct paychecks over two weeks after the company switched to a new payroll processing firm.
A number of Honda workers were hoping the payroll issues would be cleared up with the Jan. 27 payroll cycle, but many said that wasn’t the case. Many of them have been impacted by the payroll problems and don’t think the company is moving fast enough to solve them.
“Morale has definitely been a little shaky it’s been down,” one Honda worker, who wished to remain anonymous, told News Center 7′s I-Team.
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A number of workers have reached out to News Center 7 over the last two weeks and said they are waiting on back pay owed after mistakes on the Jan. 13 Honda pay cycle.
A second Honda worker told News Center 7′s Mike Campbell that there have been three separate payroll issues in the last year and that the last few weeks was the third problem. He claims the company’s time system went down early in 2022, costing many workers lots of money. Then, in the middle of last year, the company mistakenly overpaid large bonuses to many workers, then forced them to reimburse Honda.
“They still owe some of these people back pay that they’re asking for their money back,” the second employee said.
That worker said the issues are leading to frustration and workers are looking for options. Honda is non-union and one of the workers we spoke with said he didn’t think a union was the answer, but a lawyer or at least some legal advice might be.
News Center 7 checked the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division and it said “Employers must keep employee time and pay records.” The division said their mission is to, “Ensure that workers in this country are paid properly and for all the hours they work.”
In a statement sent to News Center 7, Honda assured workers they will be paid all the money owned in a final reconciliation. They said they are working to fix system errors and “remain committed to correcting any errors quickly as possible and are also working to explain to [their] associated the changes to bi-weekly pay and how those checks will look.”
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