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Teachers and staff press SFUSD for fixes, audit as payroll 'Empower' problems persist
Summary
At a public board meeting, teachers and staff described months of missing and incorrect paychecks tied to the 'Empower' payroll system, urged the district to pay staff with interest, and called for an outside audit and faster help-ticket resolution.
Teachers and district staff used public comment time at the San Francisco Board of Education meeting to press the district for immediate solutions to ongoing payroll failures tied to the Empower system.
Multiple speakers from Roosevelt Middle School and other sites said first-year teachers, staff on parental leave and other employees had not been paid correctly for months. Rachel Klaus, a teacher-librarian and parent, said staff ‘‘have still not received paychecks for the full time work that…
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