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July 14th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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Queensland nurses say they will struggle to feed their families if the state Health Department is allowed to recover overpayments issued by the broken payroll system.
Queensland Health’s troubled payroll system was launched around two-and-a-half years ago and has been causing problems for the department’s 84,000 employees ever since.
The Queensland Government this week tabled legislation allowing the department to claim up to a quarter of a nurse’s fortnightly income until the debt is repaid.
The nurses say they are prepared to give back the money they owe, but not in such large instalments.
Cairns nurse Naomi, who chose not to reveal her surname, says she would not cope financially with a 25 per cent pay reduction.
“If you take 25 per cent of somebody’s income away from them, how much has anyone got left to live on?” she told AM.
“You’ve still got bills to meet and bills to pay. It would make a huge difference to me.”
Sandra Eales, who is a nurse in Mareeba west of Cairns in the state’s far north, shares Naomi’s concerns.
“If they’re taking a quarter of that, nurses aren’t going to be able to meet their mortgage payments,” she said.
“The main emotions around paydays these days are just immense relief if it’s actually right and the stress and anxiety and the time, the energy that it sucks out of you having to try and rectify the problems.”
The State Government has moved to reassure staff at Queensland Health that no money will be collected from their accounts without their consent.
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Overpayment recovery means Qld nurses will struggle
(AM)
Queensland Health Minister Lawrence Springborg says that is not on the agenda.
“There has been a concern that we’re delving into people’s bank accounts. Not true. Can’t do that. Would never seek to do that,” he said.
“We basically give them a month. If they contact us and say they’ve got problems, they don’t agree with it, then of course we set that aside and we case manage that.”
Despite improvements to the payroll system, it continues to spit out $1.7 million worth of overpayments every fortnight.
But Mr Springborg says the amount of money landing in the accounts of individual employees is very small, so reclaiming it should not have too big an impact on their income.
“We’re dealing here with overpayments in the future which are generally small and generally one-off and they generally relate to things such as meal allowance or shift allowances, or in some cases where a person was rostered on and didn’t work,” he said.
“So they don’t generally run into lots of money.”
But after 28 months of mistakes, nurses are finding it hard to believe him.
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