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Excessive Personnel Costs Due to Poor Management Practices
From the Results section of the Auditor's report:
The department could save about $17 million a year if average sick leave use among custody staff dropped to 48 hours per year and roughly $29 million a year if it reduced its average sick leave usage to a level comparable to that of the California Highway Patrol. Besides driving up costs, the extensive use of overtime to cover employees out on sick leave often allows custody staff to earn more than their superiors; many therefore choose not to accept promotions. The department's attempts to discipline staff who claim a lot of sick leave have been ineffective in curbing excessive use. Its efforts to control sick leave costs are hampered because it does not sufficiently track the reasons that custody staff use sick leave to determine a baseline level of back-up relief staff needed and to detect patterns of excessive use...
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