MBTA audits show ample overtime with little oversight
Two audits of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s overtime pay practices revealed that last year’s highest-earning T employee was regularly allowed to approve his own overtime requests, according to The Boston Globe.
The transit agency’s audit also found that disparate standards for overtime approval allowed many workers to get overtime pay approved with little oversight, the Globe reported.
In one case, T employee Mark Flaherty made $327,636 even though his typical annual pay is $84,822, the Globe found.
Joe Pesaturo, a T spokesman, told the Boston Herald that workers approving their own overtime is “not widespread.’’ Auditors from an outside firm found that the MBTA’s overtime policies were “substandard,’’ according to the Globe, but neither the internal or external audit reported evidence of fraud.
Read the Globe’s full story here.
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