From the NY Post:According to a just-released audit by state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, New Yorkers, too, are getting hosed by some public employees.
The audit reviewed 345 workers at six state agencies and public authorities. It discovered that 75 held two public-sector jobs, lied about it on their timesheets and reaped double the pay.
“Dozens of public employees working for more than one public employer have managed to take advantage of lax oversight and take credit for hours they didn’t work,” DiNapoli said. “Our audits found supervisors were lax and often complicit in allowing employees to game the system.”
Like the nurse who claimed to work for both the state mental-health agency and a Bronx public school. Or the MTA track-equipment worker whose work schedule overlapped with his other job at the city Department of Environmental Protection.
What’s legal may be even worse. As The Post reported last week, a lawyer leaving the office of departing Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes will collect more than $280,000 in unused vacation pay.
7 comments:
Isn't Socialism great? Brotherly love in action.
This likely pales in comparison to what Bloomberg and Co. wasted on private "consultants" and vendors.
The "City Time" scandal alone dwarfs so-called double-dipping.
$280K is worth it to be done with Chuckie Hynes.
Almost of our NY elected officials are double-dipping: they get paid by the State or City as our representatives, while still collecting $$ from private jobs they still hold.
Almost of our NY elected officials are double-dipping: they get paid by the State or City as our representatives, while still collecting $$ from private jobs they still hold.
Especially Sheldon Silver, who makes around $450,000 in his "part-time" job at Weitz & Luxenberg - you've seen their thousands of TV commercials trying to lure asbestos/mesothelioma victims.
The public sector can write their own rules. If a private sector employer wasted money like this on no-show employees and infinite vacation carry-overs, they would go out of business.
This sort of petty greed is actually understandable.
last anon:if a private sector employer...
the fun-size mayor needed an outlet to be a reckless jerk and mess the city up,because bloomberg llp is still in business.
I wonder what his newsmedia division would be like if John Rhea ran it.
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