The troubled Novopay payroll system has successfully come through the busiest period in the school year, the Government says.
Minister Responsible for Novopay, Steven Joyce, said during the start-of-year period information for 40,000 new and returning school staff must be entered or re-entered into the system.
The error rate across pay periods this year was under 0.2 per cent, Mr Joyce said, which was less than half the 0.5 per cent acceptable error rate that had been set in a technical review of Novopay.
"Significant improvements to the delivery of the Novopay service have resulted in a substantially lower number of errors and payroll complaints over the past few months," Mr Joyce said.
"This is a much better outcome in a traditionally high-pressure time in the schools' payroll calendar."
