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LONG ISLAND, NY — A total of 43 LIRR employees earned more than $250,000 in 2020, according to payroll data released by the Empire Center for Public Policy. Of those, 19 workers topped $300,000...
Check out the full list of LIRR employees who were paid over $250,000 last year: Thomas Caputo, Chief Measurement Operator - $461,646; Patrick A. Nowakowski, President - $454,288
196 LIRR Employees Made More Than $200K Last Year; 12 Top $300K. See the full list of workers who took home more than $200,000 in 2017. LIRR fares are set to rise again in 2019.
Overtime fraud scandals. In 2018, LIRR foreman Raymond Murphy was discovered at or near his home on 10 separate occasions whilst claiming overtime pay. Murphy earned $405,021 in 2017, of which $295,490 was overtime. According to reports, he was allowed to retire with a full public pension before being reprimanded or punished.
The Adamson Act, enacted in 1916, provided workers with an eight-hour day at the same daily wage they had received previously for a ten-hour day, and it required time-and-a-half pay for overtime work.
Here are the LIRR employees who were paid over $200,000 last year: Kevin T. Webb, B&B Foreman, $297,535; Joseph M. Ruzzo, Foreman-Track, $297,340; Michael Gelormino, Sr. Vice President-Operations...
The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board ( RRB) is an independent agency in the executive branch of the United States government created in 1935 [2] to administer a social insurance program providing retirement benefits to the country's railroad workers. The RRB serves U.S. railroad workers and their families, and administers retirement, survivor ...
Here are the LIRR employees who were paid over $200,000 last year: Ralph K. Golden, Foreman-Track— $360,978 ; Joseph M. Ruzzo, Foreman-Track— $359,982 ; Joseph J. Biondo, Foreman-Track— $349,879
The threshold will increase to the equivalent of an annual salary of $43,888, or $844 a week, starting July 1, and then to $58,656, or $1,128 a week, on January 1, 2025.
One employee reported 74 hours of overtime alone per week and was paid over $450,000 for the year. Some Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) employees were using handwritten time records instead of electronic systems, which are easier to track and prevent abuse. MTA had no reliable system for verifying hours worked.