Excessive Overtime At UConn Health Center Flagged In Audit
Auditors said staffing shortages and contract rules helped drive the overtime bill, while 11 findings also included comp-time and telecommuting problems.
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Shortages lead UConn Health to pay for 'excessive overtime'
Connecticut is suffering from a shortage of healthcare workers, and taxpayers are footing the bill. A new audit of the University of Connecticut Health Center found that UConn Health paid employees upwards of $19 million in overtime during the fiscal years ending on June 30, 2023, and 2024. Connecticut’s Auditors of Public Accounts reviewed the records from the 15 employees who worked the most overtime during that time period. Four of them earne…
Excessive Overtime At UConn Health Center Flagged In Audit
Auditors noted that it is best practice to schedule employees in a manner that reduces unnecessary overtime costs, when possible, but that UConn Health incurred significant overtime costs due to lack of staff and many unfilled positions.
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