There is an epidemic of over-payments to staff in the Civil Service as a result of errors in a centralised pay and leave system introduced as a cost-saving measure in 2013, a major trade union conference has been told. “The problem of overpayments, which has reached epidemic proportions, is causing great suffering to many civil servants, including many in vulnerable financial circumstances, who have to repay money they do not have”. Delegates at the conference debated nearly a dozen motions on the issue with some calling for the centralised shared service system to be scrapped and human resource services to be returned to Government departments. A survey released at the conference showed that 83 per cent of civil servants who participated had experienced problems with the PeoplePoint system. The union said that more than half of the 1,079 civil servants who responded to its survey said their pay had been affected by problems encountered with the PeoplePoint system.

Source: The Irish Times April 19, 2018 18:33 UTC