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Audit shows time cheats
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Posted on Jan 12 1999
Some Department of Public Health employees had cheated the government out of a day’s work, an audit report said.
Employees from the Material and Management Division of DOH either incorrectly summarized time charges or have shown inconsistent time registers for checking in and out of work.
The audit covers March 14-28 last year.
It reveals several cases of absence-without-leave and leave-without-pay being charged against annual leave and sick leave credits.
The report also states that time cheats have not been tracked because the division abandoned the practice of using time logbook.
“The timekeeper was apparently not familiar with several time keeping requirements, and DPH-MMD failed to strictly implement existing time keeping practices to document daily time-in-and-out of employees. As a result, DPH-MMD employees were improperly compensated and granted undue personnel benefits,” the report states.
DPH has since imposed a strict policy that employees caught cheating on government hours by falsifying time cards, making unauthorized absences and sleeping on duty may lose their jobs.
