Cleveland fire stations to upgrade to fingerprint time clock system
The mayor of Cleveland is pushing for all of the city's fire stations to install a fingerprint time clock following an audit that uncovered extensive employee time theft, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The results of the internal audit, which was released last month, revealed that a number of firefighters had collected compensation for hours of employee attendance they had not actually served. One worker was found to have collected two years of pay despite only working a total of 11 days.
The local union, Cleveland Fire Fighters Local 93, recently expressed support for the employee tracking upgrade.
"The city is still operating under archaic conditions," said Joseph Diemert, a lawyer representing the union, as quoted by the news source. "To … clock in and clock out is something that the guys think is wonderful and a good thing to do."
According to a separate article by the news source, the audit was ordered because of rising overtime expenditures. Investigators found several officers were compensated for up to three times the hours they actually worked and one worked a year's worth of shifts in approximately seven or eight months in order to spend the remaining months in California.
The results of the internal audit, which was released last month, revealed that a number of firefighters had collected compensation for hours of employee attendance they had not actually served. One worker was found to have collected two years of pay despite only working a total of 11 days.
The local union, Cleveland Fire Fighters Local 93, recently expressed support for the employee tracking upgrade.
"The city is still operating under archaic conditions," said Joseph Diemert, a lawyer representing the union, as quoted by the news source. "To … clock in and clock out is something that the guys think is wonderful and a good thing to do."
According to a separate article by the news source, the audit was ordered because of rising overtime expenditures. Investigators found several officers were compensated for up to three times the hours they actually worked and one worked a year's worth of shifts in approximately seven or eight months in order to spend the remaining months in California.
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