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[WA, US] Ex employer states I owe them $500+ since they overpaid me

s this even legal? Here's the email they sent me (with PII redacted): https://postimg.cc/PNBKpzqc This company has always yanked me around, so this almost doesn't surprise me. For context: my final day with them was Sept. 15, 2021. I filled in my online timesheets perfectly accurately, but I continued to get emails from them requesting that I fill in my timesheets. Even though I had logged every last hour I worked (no more, no less), they insisted I fill in the dates that made up the remainder of that pay period as unpaid time off. OK, fine—I logged back into my timesheet, and filled in the rest of that week as time away. Since zero hours were logged for those days, there's no way I can imagine them paying me for them. Does this company have any legal recourse? If I respond (in order to avoid implicitly agreeing with this…


s this even legal? Here's the email they sent me (with PII redacted):

https://postimg.cc/PNBKpzqc

This company has always yanked me around, so this almost doesn't surprise me. For context: my final day with them was Sept. 15, 2021. I filled in my online timesheets perfectly accurately, but I continued to get emails from them requesting that I fill in my timesheets. Even though I had logged every last hour I worked (no more, no less), they insisted I fill in the dates that made up the remainder of that pay period as unpaid time off. OK, fine—I logged back into my timesheet, and filled in the rest of that week as time away. Since zero hours were logged for those days, there's no way I can imagine them paying me for them.

Does this company have any legal recourse? If I respond (in order to avoid implicitly agreeing with this claim) saying “no,” is there anything they can do or come after me for?

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