Fixed Term Faculty Member forced to have double payroll deductions for Health insurance premiums

A PSU-AAUP member properly arranged pregnancy leave and to extend leave with an unpaid leave of absence to care for the new born. As a qualifying event, she cancelled health insurance and went on her husband’s policy with his employer. When she came back to work after her unpaid leave HR improperly deducted insurance premiums from her paycheck. She was, thus, having deductions made in her paycheck and her husband’s paycheck for her health insurance premiums. HR admitted their error and offered to make her whole by reimbursing her for the premiums being deducted from her husband’s salary for her premium. Then, in processing the payment, HR advised that they would deduct payroll taxes from the settlement, leaving her several hundred dollars per month in the hole. As we go to print the issue remains unresolved.