21 hours ago
Over $39 Million In Holidays Act Remediation Payments Made To Health NZ's Waikato Staff
Statement attributable to Cath Cronin, Health New Zealand Te Manawa Taki Regional Deputy Chief Executive
Today approximately $39.1 million in Holidays Act remediation payments have been processed for 5531 current Waikato District staff.
The remediation payment made today is for the period from 1 May 2010 to 30 June 2022. The payroll in Waikato is progressively being made compliant and staff in Waikato will receive a second payment later this year from 1 July 2022 up to the date of the second payment.
The complexities of the payroll in Waikato mean that splitting the total amount over two payments is the best way for us to get money into people's pockets sooner.
We have made significant progress in the remediation project with around two-thirds of our current Health New Zealand employees now having received the money they are owed.
I want to acknowledge the patience of our staff who have been waiting for their payment and also recognise the huge work from our payroll teams, both nationally and in the regions, who have worked tirelessly on this programme.
The payment today means over 75% of our payrolls nationally have been rectified. This means those payrolls are now compliant with the Act and staff are being paid correctly for their holidays in a nationally consistent way.
Nationally we have about 90,000 current employees plus 130,000 former employees covered by the Holidays Act remediation project, for the period from 1 May 2010 to the present day.
Waikato District is the eighteenth payroll nationally to have Holidays Act remediation payments processed to current staff with Auckland, Counties Manukau, Waitematā, Taranaki, Wairarapa, Nelson Marlborough, Hutt Valley, Capital Coast and four former shared services completed, and a partial payments made in Bay of Plenty, Te Tai Tokerau, Hawke's Bay, South Canterbury.
The payment to Waikato District staff takes the total amount paid so far nationally to over $530.2 million across 71,093 current employees.
