Employee resigns after company credits almost 300 months’ salary unintentionally

New Delhi: An employee at Cial, a Food Industrial Consortium, was credited with about 300 months’ salary all at once. This incident took place last month in Chile. Due to some error by the company, the employee was paid 165,398,851 Chilean pesos (almost Rs 1.43 crore) instead of his actual salary of 500,000 pesos (approximately Rs 43,000).

On May 30, the employee, who according to DF Mas was in a dispatch assistant position, approached the deputy manager to tell him about the excess salary credited to his account. The deputy manager then approached the human resource department and the analyst noticed the error. He was informed that the money credited is not for any services rendered, rather it was an error. The employee was also asked to issue a voucher in the name of the company, in order to settle the accounts.

The next day, the day he had to go to the bank, he did not show up. Text messages and missed calls were dropped, and only at 11:00 am did he answer that he got up late and will be leaving for the bank. That proved to be the company’s last contact with the employee. On June 2, the employee delivered his letter of voluntary resignation to the company through a lawyer.

He took the money and ran away. There has been next to no communication with him since then. The company’s complaint against its former employee points to the crime of misappropriation.

Cial deals in the production of cecinas, a type of dehydrated meat. The company also has some renowned Chilean food brands such as San Jorge, La Preferida and Winter, as their clients.