Jan 09 2016
By Nicole Dungca GLOBE STAFF JANUARY 09, 2016 More than 40 percent of overtime paid to Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority workers in the 2015 fiscal year went to employees who didn’t work 40 hours in one week, according to MBTA officials. Such practices have led the T to launch audits into the agency’s overtime rules, …
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Jan 09 2016
WGBH | By Mike Deehan | January 8, 2016 One of the many problems the MBTA is trying to solve is the misuse and mismanagement of a critical leave program that’s lead to rampant cost overruns for the agency. Absenteeism among MBTA workers was one of the factors T managers cited to explain last winter’s …
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Dec 11 2015
Boston Globe | By Matt Rocheleau and Steve Annear | December 10, 2015 The head of the MBTA’s largest labor union said that Thursday’s runaway Red Line train incident could have been stopped sooner if the MBTA had two workers aboard — as the agency did until a few years ago — instead of just …
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