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Committee reviews LAFD payroll overhaul, Workday integration and timeline
Summary
City staff told a committee that replacing the decades-old NSS payroll functions and better integrating Workday is needed to stop recurring pay errors for Los Angeles Fire Department employees; officials said partial fixes are underway, full changes could take months and require additional budget approval.
A city committee heard an update on recurring payroll problems affecting the Los Angeles Fire Department and other departments and reviewed staff recommendations to centralize human-resources and payroll functions in Workday and retire the legacy NSS system.
City IT staff and the Controller's office said immediate corrective work is underway while the city evaluates longer-term options that would require additional contracting and budget approvals. Staff described a two-track approach: short-term fixes to reduce payroll errors now, and a longer project to replace or significantly reconfigure NSS so payroll is driven from a single Workday-based system.
Information Technology Agency staff summarized an initial analysis showing that consolidating HR data in Workday would reduce the need for repeated retroactive payments and improve timekeeping, certification…
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