THE introduction of Queensland Health's payroll system was celebrated with a roof-top party while thousands of staff went without their fortnightly pay.
Senior executives and bureaucrats involved in the $40 million project were treated to beers, cheese platters and a barbecue just days after the troubled payroll system went live.
And this is the most outrageous and egregious part of the whole shameful debacle.
Staff at the state's biggest hospital who may have missed out on pay were offered phone numbers for charities.
That's fucking big of them. I wonder whether next time I have to pay a hospital bill they would accept a few charity phone numbers in lieu of payment.
An absolute disgusting state of affairs. Heads should roll.
Read more at www.news.com.au
UPDATE: 23 April 2010
Queensland Health staff offered free coffee in wake of payroll debacle
ONE free cup of coffee. That's what some Queensland Health staff have been offered as an apology for the continuing pay debacle.
Deputy Premier Paul Lucas said, "There are still staff presenting with little or no pay. But there is significant progress".
This is still a disgusting state of affairs and nothing anyone involved should be proud of.
Read more at www.news.com.au
UPDATE 25 April 2010
Deputy Premier Paul Lucas's blast to bureaucrats over Queensland Health payroll debacle broadcast to The Sunday Mail.
The Sunday Mail was an unwitting third party to the conversation between Mr Lucas, senior bureaucrats and office staff.
One of the group accidentally hit a Sunday Mail Journalists telephone number on their mobile phone and did not notice.
The phone blooper shows Deputy Premier Paul Lucas at his wit's end trying to fix the embarrassing Queensland Health pay bungle.
I wonder if those involved are still partying at their wonderful achievment?
Read more and listen to the audio of the conversation at: Courier Mail Online
UPDATE: 28th May 2010
Queensland Health payroll debacle spreads with overpayments deducted illegally
The Industrial Relations Commission last night heard that the much-maligned health payroll system was deducting overpayments from workers' bank accounts without consent and the protocol was widespread through other government departments.
This makes me sick. Excuses Excuses. It's just not good enough.
Read more at: Courier Mail Online
UPDATE: 2nd June 2010
Dead nurses paid, put on roster.
Queensland Health's bungled payroll system has paid two dead nurses and put one of them on a work roster.
LMAO. The saga continues. And they threw a party to pat themselves on the back for all this shit?!
Read more at: ABC News
UPDATE: 29th June 2010
Queensland Health workers will be paid under a local pay model from September as the government struggles to fix its sick payroll system.
Read more at: Sydney Morning Herald
UPDATE: 30th June 2010
Global IT company IBM will fight the state government's attempt to withhold payments following the Queensland Health payroll debacle.
The Bligh government yesterday vowed to issue IBM with a show-cause notice asking it to explain why its contract to roll out the new pay system should not be ripped up.
Read more at: Brisbane Times
UPDATE: 3rd July 2010
Some more fallout as a result of the Queensland Health Dept, scandalous payroll debacle.
Queensland Minister for Public Works and Information and Communication Technology, Robert Schwarten goes 'ballistic' in Cassidy's Seafood and Steakhouse restaurant, Rockhampton
Mr Schwarten's department has been under fire for its role in the Queensland Health payroll debacle and it is alleged that he "went off his brain" at a group of men who were making snide comments to him.
Read more at: News.com.au
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