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Subscriber only HALF the staff at Cairns Airport will receive back pay after the organisation made an error and self-reported. And a further 80 staff employed as far back as 2012 will also get paid what they are owed - plus interest. Asked how much was owed, North Queensland Airport chief executive Richard Barker said it s in the hundreds of thousands . There was a misinterpretation of the enterprise bargaining agreement, he said. North Queensland Airports chief executive Richard Baker apologised for payroll errors and said staff would receive payment corrections. Picture: Stewart McLean. We thought, and so did (employees), that if their salary was higher than the minimum that it covered off all the allowances. We got the wording wrong.
A Queensland international airport owes ‘hundreds of thousands’ of dollars in unpaid allowances to half its workforce dating back to 2012, it can be revealed.