Photo: RNZBoth of the teachers unions - NZEI and the PPTA - have confirmed they will be taking legal action against Novopay. Since teachers heard about the delay, both unions have said they would take legal action against Novopay. The PPTA said it was prepared to keep pushing legal action against Novopay even after pay increases won by teachers were paid out. "It's more than possible that the legal action won't be concluded by that time but what we need to do is send a clear signal to people that this is unacceptable. She said the replacement payroll service that Education Payroll was building, called EdPay, would allow considerably more flexibility and responsiveness to changes in the future.

Source: Otago Daily Times July 17, 2019 05:48 UTC