Six hundred international employees of Radboud University and 270 at Radboud university medical center will receive a major back-payment. These unpaid salaries can amount to thousands of euros. An administrative error.

The university has reserved 3.1 million euros in its budget for this back-payment, and the medical center has reserved 1.5 million. A total of 870 employees were underpaid. Yesterday these employees, who participate in the so-called ‘30% facility’ (aka ‘30% ruling’), were informed of the compensation.

The salary administration will look through their records for the past five years to see who should be compensated for what amount. Those still employed by the university will receive the back-payment, including the statutory interest, together with their salary for June. The 330 former employees have been asked to provide their bank account information.

Notice

At the beginning of this year, the university sent a notice announcing the error and the fact it had been corrected as of 1 January 2018. By accident, the year-end bonus and holiday allowance had been calculated for 70% of the salary rather than the full 100%. As of 2018 the employees would receive the correct amounts in May and December.

A group of international employees were dissatisfied with this arrangement. Encouraged by staff such as Alexis Linard, a PhD candidate in Computing Science, the university agreed to see if the employees in question should also receive a retroactive back-payment.

Linard is satisfied with the outcome. “Great news,” the Frenchman reacted by email. He can expect to receive an extra gross payment of 2,800 euros. Linard is not surprised that his employer has decided to pay this compensation. “I never doubted that the university would correct this error. Rules are rules.”