Committee approves 15 temporary payroll positions as Workday review continues

On Feb. 12 the Los Angeles City Council Personnel Committee approved 15 temporary sub‑authority positions to support manual payroll corrections at the Los Angeles Fire Department as city staff and the Workday vendor continue a technical review of persistent payroll errors.

The positions — approved as sub authorities for the remainder of the fiscal year — are intended to expand the department's capacity to audit and correct a large volume of retroactive payments and other payroll discrepancies stemming from the switch to the Workday payroll and HR system and from preexisting backlog. Committee members also asked the city's IT, personnel and fire departments to return with a detailed technology recommendation for replacing or integrating the department's legacy network staffing system (NSS) with Workday.

The CAO's office had proposed nine substitute authority positions in the current fiscal year: one senior personnel analyst, two personnel record supervisors, one senior administrative clerk, one personnel analyst and four accounting clerks. The committee voted to amend that recommendation and add four senior administrative clerks, one personnel analyst and one systems analyst, bringing the total to 15 sub authorities. Councilmember John McOsker moved the amendment; the committee…