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Educators, unions tell SF school board payroll system failures left staff unpaid, benefits missing
Summary
Dozens of teachers, custodians, nutrition workers and union leaders told the San Francisco Board of Education that the district's new payroll/personnel system (Empower SF) has produced underpayments, missing benefits and cancelled insurance, urging immediate fixes and full restitution.
Dozens of SFUSD employees and union representatives used the public-comment portion of the Aug. 9 board meeting to describe persistent payroll failures after the district migrated to a new personnel and payroll system known as Empower SF.
Madison Williams, who said she worked summer school, told the board: “I was not paid $2,400 pretax in summer school wages on our July 29 paycheck.” Chris Klaus, a special-education teacher, described unanswered help tickets and said unresolved pay errors were driving…
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