By RNZ
Public hospitals are poised to start paying back tens of thousands of staff for breaches of the Holidays Act.
They have been working for years with expensive consultants, trying to unpick the tangle and bring in new payroll systems.
Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand now expected payments to current staff to begin in July.
An estimated 270,000 current and former staff are owed money stretching back to 2010.