More calls for reform of Port Authority; N.J. legislators criticize heavy overtime
December 26, 2014, 11:18 PM Last updated: Saturday, December 27, 2014, 10:13 AM
By JOHN REITMEYER, DUSTIN RACIOPPI and ABBOTT KOLOFF
staff writers |
The Record
Staggering amounts of overtime at the Port Authority, especially in the police ranks, underscore widespread mismanagement and the need for greater oversight of the bi-state agency, which has come under critical scrutiny since the George Washington Bridge lane-closings scandal last year, state lawmakers said Friday.
The reactions followed a report by The Record that 131 agency employees, most of them police officers, earned so much overtime pay through September that they more than doubled their salaries. Thirteen officers earned more than the executive director, whose annual salary is $289,000, with the top 10 overtime earners, all police, averaging an estimated 46 hours of overtime per week.
“It just points out another example of the lack of management that has gone on there over the last number of years,” said state Sen. Loretta Weinberg, the Teaneck Democrat who is co-chairwoman of the joint legislative committee investigating the 2013 bridge lane closures. She said that “people just don’t function if they’ve worked too many hours straight.”
Ha ha,
Same outrage every year.
Same inaction every year.
Outright theft of taxpayers for poor service and a dilapidated and unpleasant transit hub – the number of cops double and triple dipping here thanks tho their connections that got them the impossible to land job. Then these thugs keep piling up the OT – they are criminals and should be treated as such for stealing from us.
I wouldn’t call sitting in your patrol car in the rail yards playing games and chatting with your buddies working “too many hours straight”. More like scamming the rest if us too many hours straight. These losers should be fired.
And the governors of both states do nothing.