A report revealed that the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) disbursed over $1 million to a select group of employees who were paid for not working during the COVID-19 pandemic. These workers from the vault unit, responsible for handling fare box currency, logged 31,000 hours without actual work undertaken from home, violating CTA's telework policies. Despite knowing their roles required physical presence, management allowed these payments to continue even after a return-to-work directive was issued in May 2022, resulting in significant undue financial expenditures.
In a normal situation, paying employees not to work would be considered operating a 'ghost payroll,' although the CTA was just trying to make the best of it.
The CTA's managers allowed employees to remain on payroll despite their inability to perform duties remotely, resulting in considerable and unnecessary waste of funds.
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