Honolulu Civil Beat | Hawaii has spent millions paying civil workers under investigation: Hawaii News Now Sunrise @civilbeat | Uploaded July 2024 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
Hawaii taxpayers have spent at least $9.5 million over the past few years on so-called “stay away” pay — that’s money that public employees receive while they take time away from the job amid an investigation into alleged misconduct, as Chad Blair told Hawaii News Now Sunrise.
And our tally is just a partial snapshot based on responses we received from agencies last year. Meanwhile, some investigations drag on for years. Subjects of those investigations sometimes get other jobs, allowing them to earn two incomes.
Christina Jedra explores this system and details some of the most egregious examples we’ve uncovered in her latest investigation: civilbeat.org/2024/07/wayward-government-workers-in-hawaii-get-paid-not-to-work-as-investigations-drag-on-for-months-or-years
Hawaii taxpayers have spent at least $9.5 million over the past few years on so-called “stay away” pay — that’s money that public employees receive while they take time away from the job amid an investigation into alleged misconduct, as Chad Blair told Hawaii News Now Sunrise.
And our tally is just a partial snapshot based on responses we received from agencies last year. Meanwhile, some investigations drag on for years. Subjects of those investigations sometimes get other jobs, allowing them to earn two incomes.
Christina Jedra explores this system and details some of the most egregious examples we’ve uncovered in her latest investigation: civilbeat.org/2024/07/wayward-government-workers-in-hawaii-get-paid-not-to-work-as-investigations-drag-on-for-months-or-years
