Connecticut releases overtime state employee attendance records
According to a recent report by Connecticut budget officials, state employees were paid $250 million in overtime over a 12-month period that ended on June 30, the Hartford Courant reports.
The time and attendance figures indicated that approximately 2,000 of the state's 45,000 workers earned the equivalent of half their regular pay in overtime during a one-month period.
According to the news source, employees with a 40-hour work week would have to work more than 13 hours of overtime at a time-and-a-half rate of pay in order for this level to be reached. The top-earning state agency was the Department of Correction, which disbursed more than $65 million in overtime employee attendance payouts. This was followed by the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services and the Department of Developmental Services, which paid $44.3 million and $39.7 million, respectively.
Amid concerns about pension-padding, state governor Dannel Malloy announced in August that agencies will have to justify overtime payouts of more than half of an employee's base pay to the Office of Policy and Management. Malloy called the new regulations "a management tool" and expressed hope that requiring agencies to "come up with an appropriate answer" for excessive overtime expenditures will help reduce them.
The time and attendance figures indicated that approximately 2,000 of the state's 45,000 workers earned the equivalent of half their regular pay in overtime during a one-month period.
According to the news source, employees with a 40-hour work week would have to work more than 13 hours of overtime at a time-and-a-half rate of pay in order for this level to be reached. The top-earning state agency was the Department of Correction, which disbursed more than $65 million in overtime employee attendance payouts. This was followed by the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services and the Department of Developmental Services, which paid $44.3 million and $39.7 million, respectively.
Amid concerns about pension-padding, state governor Dannel Malloy announced in August that agencies will have to justify overtime payouts of more than half of an employee's base pay to the Office of Policy and Management. Malloy called the new regulations "a management tool" and expressed hope that requiring agencies to "come up with an appropriate answer" for excessive overtime expenditures will help reduce them.
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