Wyn Delano
WMAL.com
WASHINGTON (WMAL) — A Metro track department supervisor was fired on Friday for abuse of overtime.
Others are now under administrative review.
The firing was prompted by an ongoing investigation into overtime fraud.
Metro’s Inspector General Geoffrey Cherrington looked at overall overtime earnings and found that certain track managers earned more than double their base salary in overtime, a pattern that was recurring over several years, prior to the SafeTrack initiative.
WMATA General Manager Paul Wiedefeld justified the firing in a statement, “““It is disturbing and disappointing that any employee would misuse overtime…As stewards of the public’s trust, all of us at Metro must hold ourselves to a standard of conduct that is above suspicion and reproach. We have a code of ethics that prohibits abuse of employment here for private gain,” he said.
Metro didn’t release any additional details about the firing, citing an ongoing investigation.
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