Migrant crisis spurred nearly 3 million overtime hours for two NYC agencies— costing taxpayers $139M

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Posted on 12/28/2024 3:37:04 PM PST by Libloather

New York City’s biggest overtime hogs for a second straight year are mostly rank-and-file workers responsible for tackling the Big Apple’s $6 billion-plus migrant crisis, The Post has learned.

Fifty-one of the 100 city employees who racked up the most OT during the fiscal year ending June 30 work at the Departments of Social Services and Homeless Services, and their duties include assisting migrants, an examination of city payroll records shows.

Each worker accumulated at least 1,851 hours in extra pay.

Leading the way was Kashwayne Burnett, a DSS bookkeeper who worked 3,303 hours of overtime in the agency’s Manhattan office. That comes to roughly 14 hours a day, seven days a week. The 10-year veteran’s $164,760 in overtime pay more than tripled his $60,445 base salary.

Bardhan Pijush, a DSS caseworker, was second with 3,137 extra hours, followed by Gavin McAuley, a DHS housekeeper who clocked 2,664 hours of OT.

In the previous fiscal year, 47 employees at both departments were among the 100 who worked the most OT, a huge leap from fiscal 2022 when only three workers made the list.

The migrant crisis “has been a major drain” on all municipal resources, but the DSS and DHS’s overtime hours and payouts are “absolutely staggering,” City Councilman Robert Holden (D-Queens) told The Post.

“We simply can’t continue down this path,” he said. “It has to end, and taxpayers are sick of it.”

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