Close to 100 staff have been sacked from the Waikato District Health Board in the past six years, with more than 1300 disciplined. But the reasons why are unknown – and it will cost at least $38,000 to find out. An Official Information Act request revealed that 1335 DHB staff faced disciplinary action between January 2010 and August 2016. And of those that were disciplined, 97 were given the boot. The DHB’s director of people and performance, Greg Peploe, said that number is expected from an organisation with nearly 7000 staff members. “Not every one of our employees is exemplary,” Peploe said. “We have theft … it’s a large organisation.”
