![]() ![]() “MTA management must continue to commit to the timekeeping-payroll integration,” Pokorny wrote in her report ( PDF). MTA Inspector General Carolyn Pokorny’s office notes that the electronic timekeeping has to be connected to all payroll systems at the MTA for it to be truly effective. Now, the MTA’s Office of the Inspector General finds that some workers at the MTA still use the “honor system” on sites that don’t have a biometric timekeeping clock-and that the MTA’s $31 million effort to modernize timekeeping and “deter waste, fraud, and abuse” across its divisions could be undone if the MTA doesn’t fully complete the work it began. The MTA then agreed to modernize the way it tracks overtime, investing $24 million to install time clocks that use fingerprints to clock in and out of each day, along with several other measures created to curb overtime abuse. Until Kronos and payroll are fully integrated and digitized, management will lack key tools to verify OT wages and catch cheaters, according to Pokorny.After a devastating discovery that a Long Island Railroad foreman was the highest paid MTA employee in 2018, thanks to his 3,864 hours of overtime that year, a subsequent investigation found he was on the clock while on vacation, at a concert, and out bowling. While most MTA workers currently clock in and out using the new tech, MTA Inspector General Carolyn Pokorny has repeatedly accused transit leaders of slow-rolling the integration of modern timekeeping into the authority’s payroll systems. The “biometric” clocks require workers to swipe in and out of work, and scan their fingerprints when they do so - something consultants hired by the MTA said would prevent and catch fraud in the future. MTA officials rolled out Kronos authority-wide about two years ago after The Post exposed allegations of overtime abuse following a series of exposés on LIRR workers pulling in huge paychecks. “We have also engaged agency Payroll and Timekeeping experts to identify alternatives to ensure all employees are paid during this period.” “MTA IT subject-matter experts are actively working with Kronos UKG to resolve the problem,” the message said. Courtesy of MTAĪ message to MTA workers on Monday afternoon said the outage “could take several days, if not works, to resolve.” Angus Mordant/Bloomberg via Getty Images The software will take “several weeks” to return to normal, an email from the company said. Until Kronos and payroll are fully integrated and digitized, management will lack key tools to verify OT wages. Workers must still swipe in and out of work using the Kronos clocks, the MTA said, as the local hardware continues to function despite the Kronos network’s ongoing issues. An MTA spokesman confirmed that the authority’s timekeeping systems had been impacted by the global outage. The software will take “several weeks” to return to normal, the email said.Īt least some workers received notice of a Kronos outage earlier Monday, transit sources said. The investigation remains ongoing, as we work to determine the nature and scope of the incident,” Hughes wrote. “We are working with leading cyber security experts to assess and resolve the situation, and have notified the authorities. Kronos is “currently unavailable” as the UKG works to “assess and resolve the situation,” UKG executive vice president Bob Hughes said in an email to Kronos’ corporate customers posted to the company’s website. Kronos and its parent company UKG said Monday that it spotted “unusual activity” in the Kronos network late Saturday which the company has since determined to be a “ransomware incident.” The MTA’s high-tech timekeeping system went dark Monday after the company that makes the clocks and underlying software suffered a ransomware attack over the weekend, The Post has learned. Hochul’s aides shield her from questions about Buffalo mom slayingįirm founded by top Eric Adams aide lands key MTA contract ![]() NYC’s former ‘train daddy’ Andy Byford back in US and open to work ![]()
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