It has been brought to our attention by numerous officers that overtime computation errors have been made on their paychecks. Specifically, some exempt status officers received reduced overtime compensation.

Budget and Finance has acknowledged numerous problems so far.  It appears that the vast majority of the problems associated with Lieutenants and above is due to coding errors that were submitted in the SAP system.

Additionally, we have received reports that approximately 300 officers did not receive any overtime pay for worked they performed.

A number of officers PTO accruals were botched as well and folks in Central Payroll are looking into this matter as well to correct it.

We are very fearful that Chief Hurtt’s directive related to adjusting hours and days off for a very large segment of officers impacted overtime opportunity and caused many calls of outrage. Many officers were depending on this opportunity to offset financial obligations as a result of the hurricane. We also fearful that this unnecessary move will cause the SAP system, which is already fraught with problems, to blow a gasket. We have advised the Mayor that the chief’s unilateral decision to screw over some officers to save a few bucks will in the end cause the Department and officers a long-term headache that will take a tremendous amount of effort to correct. It is important that all of us closely scrutinize our pay records to insure that we don’t let any mistakes go uncorrected.

In closing, this is yet one more example of poor judgment and leadership.  Please bear with us in our efforts to help resolve frustration with pay that you may experience.

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