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About 100 New York City garbage collectors and their bosses were paid wages of around $ 300,000 because of an overtime windfall, according to a report released Sunday.
The New York Post, citing a department official, reported the explosive salaries were due to excessive overtime due to staffing issues throughout the year. The shortage has been blamed on the COVID-19 outbreak. The newspaper pointed out that many of those who saw their wages increase were supervisors at retirement age, who can use the bump to “fatten their pensions”.
FILE: A sanitation worker wearing a mask and gloves picks up trash amid the coronavirus pandemic on April 28, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by Alexi Rosenfeld /.) (Alexi Rosenfeld /.)
The newspaper identified Christopher Tamas, a supervisor from the Bronx who was hired in 2000, as the “king” of overtime. His total compensation was $ 299,160 after earning $ 170,883 in overtime.
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FILE: A New York City Department of Sanitation employee wearing a mask and gloves picks up trash amid the COVID-19 pandemic on April 30, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by Alexi Rosenfeld /.) (Alexi Rosenfeld /.)
Like other municipal organizations, the agency has a vaccine mandate in place which has compounded staffing issues. Last week, the city’s Corrections Charity Officers Association sued Mayor Bill de Blasio for his “draconian” vaccine tenure and complained about the long hours workers would have to work due to the lack of of staff. As of last month, 87% of the department’s 10,000 employees have received at least one jab.
FILE 2021: A New York City Department of Sanitation snow plow moves along a street following a winter storm in New York City. Photographer: Mark Kauzlarich / Bloomberg via.
The Post report said the increase in overtime was attributed to massive snowstorms and the department not hiring as many new employees as in the past. The sanitation department did not immediately respond to an out-of-hours email from Fox News.
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“They haven’t hired new people for over a year,” Harry Nespoli, head of the Association of Uniformed Sanitation Workers Association, told the newspaper. “They didn’t hire anyone during the pandemic because there was a hiring freeze. Garbage must be collected. “
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