The City of Buffalo will launch a new method for keeping track of its employees on paid leave beginning next week, following revelations about a clerk who was paid nearly $600,000 over 7½ years while on suspension.
Mayor Byron Brown on Tuesday announced the new procedures to prevent suspended city workers from getting paid for years.
Buffalo City Comptroller Barbara Miller-Williams said she intends to conduct an investigation, but not a full-blown audit, to determine how an employee on administrative leave for 7½ years managed to be paid nearly $600,000 without triggering a hearing or an investigation.
“I believe the situation involving the one employee was and is an isolated case,” he added. “To make sure it doesn’t happen again, I’ve instituted a number of safeguards going forward. These measures will create both a more efficient and centralized reporting system.”
“Now every department that has an employee on leave on a biweekly basis will get a printout of the employee on leave. The department will have to attest to that employee being on leave. Department of Human Resources will then certify all of those employees that are on leave from the individual departments,” Brown said.
He directed the city’s Department of Administration and…
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