Another victory over wage theft – $38 million owed at NZ Post
NZ Post has made a provision for $38 million in its 2019 accounts for remediation of Holidays Act payments owing to employees.
22,000 current and former employees of NZ Post and its subsidiaries dating back to 20 May 2010 will have their Holidays Act payment entitlements recalculated, and will receive their back pay owing.
NZ Post has engaged Ernst Young, an accountancy firm experienced in Holidays Act remediation in New Zealand, to calculate the back pay owing to each current and former employee.
By March 2020 each employee and former employee should be told how much they are owed, and payments are expected from July 2020.
This follows an audit by MBIE (Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment) in May 2016 of NZ Post’s compliance with the Holidays Act. NZ Post said after the audit that only casual and on-call employees had been underpaid.
NZ Post has objected to the use of the term “Wage Theft” when discussing the “mistakes” that were made when calculating annual leave. However, the mistakes that have been made by nearly every major payroll system in New Zealand are simply so systematic and egregioous that the duty of care test has been failed.
Well done Mike, PWUA and Unite!
The government finding out that the government isn’t governing? Really.
Great stuff, thanks Mike and all of you who do this important work.
This is an example of the so called delivery of better public services under national and what about the school built in Taihape the whole building has to be pulled down all under our brighter future lot and their so called good economic management