Worker paid 100 times their salary due to HR slip-up

A worker was accidentally paid one hundred times their salary due to a HR mistake, the BBC reports.

The Australian employee was meant to receive A$4,921.76 (£2803.79), but instead found A$492,176 (£280,250) in their bank account.

However, the honest worker who was employed by the Government and was based in a remote area of the Northern Territory, returned the money four weeks later – and would have done it sooner if they did not have to travel to reach a bank.

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A report into the incident blamed two human errors - the incorrect data entry in the first place and then the failure to deal with a system-generated alert which would have highlighted the error.