Retired nurses in South Australia have been threatened with debt collectors for as little as $33 due to salary overpayments made more than 20 years ago.
She requested paperwork to validate the claim; Treasury's payroll and business unit, Shared Services SA , sent a letter demanding full payment within 10 days or instalments at a"minimum of $123 per fortnight"."It's just a bit of a kick in the teeth really."
unbelievable ! ? no ; not this gov't
Gross administrative error and with elapsed time it should be waived as unreasonable to collect
Muppets
Well, definitely time for every single one of those nurses to write to the minister, requesting a ministerial inquiry and investigation AND asking for every single one of their pay slips for every year they can think of... To start 😉
It would have only been pennies, not $25mill
Arseholes.
The words 'overpaid nurses' can go in the same sentence?
Such bullshit. There’s legislation to waive such debt that is that old.
Besides the statute of limitations being well past I bet pounds to peanuts they are owed thousands of hours in unpaid overtime, what utter injustice.
Far better to write the amounts off. How much will it cost to attend the small claims court for 18 cases? Also the cost of preparing legal evidence?
We need a FEDERAL ICAAC Then we NEED debt collector's set on big business Who over & under PAID need to be held responsible for all these DEBTS. Stealing is TAKING. ie THEFT overpaying is stupidity 0f math & calculation
peter_donnelly Queensland Health is still actively overpaying & reclaiming.
Say whaaaaat? That’s crazy!!!
The nurses should fight back for a claim for unpaid overtime for all of the times they stayed back, worked through lunch or spent an entire shift without attending to basic personal need like toileting and hydration!
$5 a week ufn
over payments made by organisations office errors are not legally recoverable unless it can be proved the staff knew they were being overpaid
Well.. no claiming retrospective late finishes, missed meal breaks, on call meal breaks etc etc..
Ahhh wonder how many still be loyal to John Howard
The cost of chasing these small debts is probably more than they will recover
The payroll system should have been called FUBAR
Worse result could be that you had a interest free loan for 23 years. notsobad abcnews auspol
Simply outrageous
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