About 100 Gold Coast medical staff are being dudded wages every fortnight, seven years after the Queensland Health payroll debacle. On average 94 staff are receiving “ad hoc” payments every two weeks to cover for payroll stuff-ups, WorkCover claims and late submissions of paperwork. A Gold Coast University Hospital nurse who asked not to be named said she was short-changed $1000 recently and was laughed at when she said she didn’t know how she’d pay her mortgage.
