Principals question PWC Novopay Numbers
The Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC) update on the latest teachers’ pay round appears to be out of sync with reported
school experiences. The report indicates a total of 1,662 staff as not paid, under paid or over paid, while a survey of
school principals conducted immediately after the latest pay round yielded a figure of 25,639 staff being incorrectly
paid out of 1,166 schools responding.
Further results of the survey indicated that over half (55.3%) of schools would be paying staff directly out of their
school’s operations grant due to Novopay errors, and 96% of schools have on-going problems that are yet to be resolved
from previous pay rounds.
‘Our survey results paint quite a different picture from the PWC figures released’, said Philip Harding, President of
the New Zealand Principals’ Federation today.
‘What the PWC report is not capturing are the on-going errors that just keep on compounding and for many schools these
errors go right back to the start of Novopay’s introduction,’ he said.
‘The report may provide some helpful information for the immediate pay round on some limited parameters, but by no means
captures the reality for the majority of schools,’ said Harding.
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