Mater Private pay manipulation raises governance red flags

A clinical nurse manager at Mater Private Hospital admitted to altering internal payroll systems to wrongly secure over €56,000 in premium payments and time-off entitlements over 15 months. 

The unauthorised changes to the hospital’s Softworks timekeeping system point to serious gaps in internal controls, system oversight, and accountability structures—issues that can quietly escalate into reputational or financial risk in any organisation.

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