{"id":45118,"date":"1999-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/942296c4-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"1999-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1999-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"942296d8-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/942296d8-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Audit shows time cheats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some Department of Public Health employees had cheated the government out of a day&#8217;s work, an audit report said.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The audit covers March 14-28 last year.<\/p>\n<p>It reveals several cases of absence-without-leave and leave-without-pay being charged against annual leave and sick leave credits.<\/p>\n<p>The report also states that time cheats have not been tracked because the division abandoned the practice of using time logbook.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; the report states.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Department of Public Health employees had cheated the government out of a day&#8217;s work, an audit report said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}