{"id":229703,"date":"2021-04-18T06:10:23","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T03:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-mtas-still-failing-to-end-massive-overtime-abuses\/"},"modified":"2021-04-18T06:10:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T03:10:23","slug":"the-mtas-still-failing-to-end-massive-overtime-abuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-mtas-still-failing-to-end-massive-overtime-abuses\/","title":{"rendered":"#The MTA’s still failing to end massive overtime abuses"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#The MTA’s still failing to end massive overtime abuses<\/strong>”
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Despite service reductions amid the lockdowns, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority\u2019s overtime bill barely dropped last year, with a whopping $1.1 billion, down just 17 percent from 2018\u2019s record $1.38 billion.<\/p>\n

The Empire Center, which first exposed<\/a> the MTA\u2019s suspiciously vast OT payouts two years ago, reports<\/a> that 431 employees pulled at least $100,000 in overtime, with 667 collecting more in overtime than in regular pay.<\/p>\n

In what\u2019s likely the tip of the iceberg, the feds have indicted five Long Island Rail Road employees (most of them flagged by the Empire Center and\/or The Post) on conspiracy charges for fraudulently raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars by abusing the transit\u2019s \u201chonor system.\u201d<\/p>\n

It took several lawsuits for the watchdog to get the MTA to make public the incriminating payroll data, and various MTA units still \u201chave trouble\u201d coughing it up each year.<\/p>\n

MTA Chairman Pat Foye claims the agency is \u201caddressing potential abuses as quickly and efficiently as possible,\u201d but the linchpin anti-fraud fix, installing fingerprint timeclocks, went off the tracks during the pandemic. And the agency blew past its end-of-February deadline for a new timeline for reforms after the abrupt departure of Chief Operating Officer Mario Peloquin.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve supported the MTA\u2019s successful efforts to get major bailouts from the feds, but the agency needs to get serious about breaking the bad habits that let employees rob it blind.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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