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SFUSD meeting dominated by worker accounts of missed pay, board directs staff to fix payroll
Summary
Dozens of SFUSD staff and union leaders told the school board that errors in the district's new 'Empower' payroll system left employees unpaid, with SEIU Local chapter president Rafael Picazo saying the district had 'found good money after bad to the tune of $16,500,000.' Superintendent Wayne said the district has begun emergency steps, including contracting Alvarez & Marshall, to stabilize payroll.
Dozens of SFUSD employees, parents and union leaders used the district’s public-comment period to press the board for immediate fixes after months of payroll errors tied to the district’s new ‘Empower’ system.
“A coworker at my site has not been paid at all,” said Aisling Pranj, a teacher who described multiple colleagues at Roosevelt Middle School with missing pay and unresolved help tickets. SEIU Local 1021 chapter president Rafael Picazo told the board: “The district has found good money after bad to the tune of $16,500,000 now on a flawed payroll system that has resulted in the district’s lowest paid employees being shorted over and over…
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