Posted on 03/22/2018 10:45:25 AM PDT by tlozo
ALBANY — An upstate prison nurse raked in a state-leading $153,708 in overtime in 2017, the Daily News has learned.
With the overtime on top of her base $63,293 salary, Janet Johnson, a nurse at Franklin Correctional Facility, received $217,000 in pay in 2017, according to records provided by state Controller Thomas DiNapoli’s office.
Johnson, who could not be reached for comment, worked 2,445.5 hours of overtime last year.
That would mean if her regular work hours are factored in, Johnson put in an average of 12 hours a day if she worked every day for a full year.
And she’s not the only one. All told, 17 of the top 30 overtime earners recorded more than 2,000 extra hours last year, which would equate to at least 38.5 extra hours a week over 52 weeks, according to the records.
Two employees put in for more than 3,000 hours, including Desmond Lewis, a secure treatment aide at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens.
Lewis is recorded having put in a state-high 3,597 extra hours, which equates to 10 hours a day every day for a full year on top of his regular work week. With his work week factored in, it means he was working more than 15 hours a day seven days a week, 52 weeks a year.
With a base salary of $49,721, Lewis, who couldn’t be reached for comment, made $132,405 in overtime for total earnings of $182,126. His overtime money in 2017 was the sixth highest among state workers.
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They’re probably close to retirement. Padding their pensions.
Well the all the city problems should be taken care of then.
“With the overtime on top of her base $63,293 salary, Janet Johnson, a nurse at Franklin Correctional Facility, received $217,000 in pay in 2017”
So, NY State could have hired TWO other nurses at the same base salary and saved money.
Just a guess though. I read the entire thing quick since it’s the Daily News site, which has all kinds of crap on it, but I didn’t see anything about pension padding.
Not physically possible................
Someone needs to ask her supervisor or the person who is authorizing the OT to explain the urgent need to man this position at the level they are being charged for OT. If it just to hand out books or recreational equipment then it is obviously not needed. If she is a correctional officer then this person is setting herself up for injury due to physical and mental exhaustion which could leave her open for injury from her assigned duties. This would obviously lead to an expensive L&I claim or lawsuit.
Even better:
“Lewis is recorded having put in a state-high 3,597 extra hours”
These people are lying. Plus their supervisor had to sign off on their time sheets. I am so glad I do not live in NY anymore.
That would require ‘Lewis’ to eat, sleep and work all in the same place..................
This is how some are racking up these hours:
“some who are paid overtime are allowed to sleep while on site.”
“There are other instances, she said, where people get paid to be on a call, but may not be at their facilities.”
“Union officials have long argued that Gov. Cuomo’s push to freeze or downsize the state payroll is at odds with round-the-clock staffing requirements at prisons and psychiatric hospitals, forcing a reliance on mandatory overtime.”
Therefore, they are not allowed to hire more people to fill a position around the clock. So, people are getting paid to sleep or when they are not on site.
The only way that amount of overtime is possible is to credit double time or more for overtime. Work an hour overtime and get credit for three?
This is why the states are going broke. Union rules are killing businesses and states. ALL contracts must be renegotiated.
It was a woman... don't you know by now that they can do anything?? /sarc
Rules that do not limit overtime and do not limit how many hours a week altogether someone can work.
When are these kind of rules most frequently broken? In whatever are the years most closely associated with the years-of-salary/wages that are part of the government employees defined benefit pension plan.
In New York it is whatever are the highest three year average in wages, and wages, in the formula, include overtime. Thus government employees all over New York, with their bosses assistance, are always boosting their later years overtime in order to goose their pension benefits above what they would otherwise be.
I think that the 2445.5 hours is straight time hour conversion, not total hours worked.
Just crumbs. (/s)
“Well the all the city problems should be taken care of then.”
New York STATE. NY City is not the same thing.
“In New York it is whatever are the highest three year average in wages, and wages, in the formula, include overtime. Thus government employees all over New York, with their bosses assistance, are always boosting their later years overtime in order to goose their pension benefits above what they would otherwise be.”
Not anymore. Those hired in the last ten or so years have different pensions. The later “tiers” do NOT allow you to pad the crap out of your pension with overtime. It is based on your base salary. In addition these people pay into the retirement system until they leave or retire, as opposed to the old system that only required the employee to contribute for 10 years.
NY has actually fixed their retirement system. It’s just going to take time to work through the old timers.
LOL! Yup, you’re correct. My family is from around the Hudson area. Late 16s early 1700s.
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