MassDOT has launched an investigation into “overtime practices” at a New Bedford bridge after the Herald reported a tender racked up $103,000 in OT last year.
The bridge operator was paid a total of $167,718 for all of 2020, records show . He declared working 2,344 hours of overtime at the New Bedford-Fairhaven Swing Bridge, MassDOT said Friday when pressed to explain the OT pay. That works out to an average of 45 overtime hours a week.
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Report: Number of Louisiana state workers down, while total pay is up | News |
(The Center Square) – The number of Louisiana state workers who work under the governor has declined since 2013, though the average pay for those workers has increased, according to the Louisiana Legislative Auditor.
The number of state employees in executive branch agencies decreased by 3.8 percent from 37,665 in fiscal year 2013 to 36,241 during the fiscal year that ended June 30. The most common reasons for these decreases were voluntary resignation (48.6 percent) and retirement (16.0 percent).
Cision Facing Sales Employee Class Suit For Unpaid Overtime
Cision US Inc. was hit with a new lawsuit in a Manhattan federal court alleging it violated federal and state wage laws by deliberately cheating sales representatives out of overtime pay.
The proposed class and collective action was filed by Anatoliy Mikityuk, Mitch Tallungan, and Michael Esquibel, who worked as sales representatives at Cision offices in New York, Chicago, and Beltsville, Md. They sued under the Fair Labor Standards Act and Illinois, Maryland, and New York wage laws.
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MassDOT bridge operator clocked $103,000 in OT last year
Overtime at the state highway department was in the fast lane last year, with one employee pulling down $103,683 in extra pay, payroll records show .
As part of the Herald’s “Your Tax Dollars at Work” annual report , our research shows the Department of Transportation payroll for 2020 shows 928 employees earned $100,000 or more for the year.
MassDOT Secretary Stephanie Pollack, who is heading to DC to work for President Biden’s Federal Highway Administration, earned $170,405, but records show she wasn’t the highest paid.
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COVID-19 pushes healthcare providers to travel nurses
Traveling nurses for AMN Healthcare like Rue Brown and Stephanie Bell are in high demand to care for COVID-19 patients.
As the pandemic nears the one-year mark, healthcare providers still struggle to find travel nurses to handle the surge of COVID-19 patients.
Staffing agencies said the demand they’re seeing is unprecedented in their company histories. “The industry has never seen demand like this,” said April Hansen, executive vice president of the staffing firm Aya Healthcare. “This is new territory for everyone.”
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