The MTA is dragging its feet on getting its workers enrolled in its new biometric timekeeping system — leaving 455 million payroll dollars per month at risk of fraud, agency Inspector General Carolyn Pokorny said Friday.
In a scathing letter to MTA board members, Pokorny rang alarm bells that just 26 percent of employees were enrolled in the system as of Oct. 23.
Transit officials had previously committed to rolling out the modern time clocks by the end of September — but informed board members last month that the effort won’t be complete until well into 2020.
“MTA employees who are not yet using biometric timekeeping, and/or work in a location where the clocks have yet to be installed, operate in an environment where fraud easily could occur undetected due to management failures,” Pokorny wrote.
To meet the current deadline will be a “substantial challenge” for the agency, she said.
The MTA has yet to figure out how to integrate the clocks with its payroll process, Pokorny revealed last month.
Further complicating matters, last week transit officials identified two allegedly sabotaged time clocks at two different MTA work locations.
Transit officials did not immediately return a request for comment.
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