Marin County admitted it mistakenly overpaid a group of workers hundreds of thousands of dollars, and now, it could end with the workers having to pay it back.

Rollie Katz, executive director of the Marin Association of Public Employees, has seen it all.

"I've been doing this work for 47 years," said Katz,

Or at least he thought he had.

"I think this is a first. And I've been in this county for 11 years. Certainly, a first in this county."

Katz represents the county workers now caught in the middle of a costly payroll mistake by their employer. Earlier this month, Katz wrote to Marin County Supervisors, warning that back in 2022, the county mistakenly increased pay for bilingual social service workers by about seven percent. That raise, he says, was meant for a different group of empl

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