The Conflicts of Interest Board adopted New York City Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings Administrative Law Judge Julia H. Lee’s recommendation to impose a $10,000 fine for a New York City Housing Administration [NYCHA] building maintenance supervisor [Employee] who worked a second job during city work hours.
Employee worked at NYCHA’s
Employee claimed he maintained the two jobs
with overlapping work hours by taking his lunch hour at his city job at the end
of the workday and using this time to commute to his second job. However, a comparison
of his NYCHA city timesheet and
Judge Lee rejected Employee’s argument that he
had a flexible schedule at his city job, which permitted him to start and end
his NYCHA work early and take his lunch hour at the end of the day. The Administrative
Law Judge found that Employee used his managerial flextime erroneously and
liberally without supervisory approval on a regular basis. The ALJ determined Employee
spent 109 hours working at Mount Sinai during his NYCHA city work hours, thus
receiving $6,014.93 from NYCHA that he did not earn.
Click HERE to access Judge Julia H. Lee’s
decision and recommendation posted on the Internet