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Little Neck is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Port Washington Branch in the Little Neck neighborhood of Queens, New York City.The station is at Little Neck Parkway and 39th Road, about half a mile (800 m) north of Northern Boulevard.
The average pay for an LIRR employee was $106,103 in 2014, a 27 percent increase over 2013. The large pay increase in 2014 was partly due to $431 million paid out for retroactive raises dating ...
The Atlantic Branch is an electrified rail line owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road in the U.S. state of New York.It is the only LIRR line with revenue passenger service in the borough of Brooklyn.
In 2008, more than 90 percent of Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) retirees were receiving occupational disability payments. [8] A former LIRR pension department manager was arrested and charged with official misconduct for allegedly "taking money to help railroad employees find a doctor and fill out paperwork for federal disability payments". [9]
The Main Line is a rail line owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road in the U.S. state of New York.It begins as a two-track line at Long Island City station in Long Island City, Queens, and runs along the middle of Long Island about 95 miles (153 km) to Greenport station in Greenport, Suffolk County.
One employee reported 74 hours of overtime alone per week and was paid over $450,000 for the year. [31] Some Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) employees were using handwritten time records instead of electronic systems, which are easier to track and prevent abuse. [32] [33] MTA had no reliable system for verifying hours worked. [33]
The LIRR determined Conklin falsely indicated he inspected a broken rail bond about a month earlier on April 26, prosecutors said. The broken rail bond caused the derailment, prosecutors said.
MTA employees also suffered due to the budget issues. By mid-July 2010, MTA layoffs had reached over 1,000, and many of those affected were low-level employees who made less than $55,000 annually. [143] As of 2015, the MTA was running a $15 billion deficit in its $32 billion 2015–2019 Capital Plan. [144]