City employee may receive more than $57,000 in unpaid overtime
A payroll discrepancy that led to a Bossier City, Louisiana, building maintenance employee not being paid overtime for years was discovered last month after the worker requested retirement benefit estimates and calculations on unpaid overtime, according to the Shreveport Times.
Officials subsequently launched an investigation, which uncovered discrepancies between the hours documented on payroll process records and the worker's time card that are believed to have been intentional - a violation of federal law. The city is liable to pay overtime accrued over the past three years, which totals more than $57,000.
According to the city's chief administrative officer, Clifford Oliver, the investigation is ongoing. Later this month, members of the Bossier City Council will vote on a measure to transfer the money from the city's general fund surplus to the building maintenance department, the news source reports.
Drug-testing company Cetero Research recently faced the opposite problem when six of its Houston, Texas, bioanalytical laboratory employees were discovered to have misreported their hours in order to fraudulently claim overtime pay.
Officials subsequently launched an investigation, which uncovered discrepancies between the hours documented on payroll process records and the worker's time card that are believed to have been intentional - a violation of federal law. The city is liable to pay overtime accrued over the past three years, which totals more than $57,000.
According to the city's chief administrative officer, Clifford Oliver, the investigation is ongoing. Later this month, members of the Bossier City Council will vote on a measure to transfer the money from the city's general fund surplus to the building maintenance department, the news source reports.
Drug-testing company Cetero Research recently faced the opposite problem when six of its Houston, Texas, bioanalytical laboratory employees were discovered to have misreported their hours in order to fraudulently claim overtime pay.
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