Unique | Adams cracks down on extra time for NYPD, FDNY and two different NYC businesses after alleged sex-for-OT police scandal

Mayor Eric Adams desires to reign in extreme extra time within the NYPD, the FDNY and two different Massive Apple departments within the wake of the alleged sex-for-overtime scandal that has rocked the police power.

Hizzoner, in a Monday directive, laid out a set of recent guidelines geared toward cracking down on sky-high OT within the police and hearth departments, in addition to the Division of Correction and Division of Sanitation — as he introduced Metropolis Corridor will oversee compliance.

Adams wrote within the memo that the 4 departments “characterize a disproportionate share of extra time spending,” and that it’s their “ongoing accountability of administration of every of the Companies to make sure that extra time is used responsibly and in accordance with the Metropolis’s tips.”

Three Metropolis Corridor workplaces, together with the Workplace of Administration and Price range, are tasked with working with the focused departments to slash the spending.

“The oversight workplaces shall work with their Companies to develop, and thereafter monitor detailed extra time discount plans, together with targets for year-over-year extra time reductions for every fiscal yr,” Adams wrote.

The Workplace of the Chief of Workers, together with the price range workplace, is particularly offering oversight to the NYPD, which has been underneath hearth after explosive allegations that former Chief of Division Jeffrey Maddrey pressured an underling for intercourse in alternate for a whopping quantity of extra time.

Lt. Quathisha Epps, who logged greater than $200,000 in OT to be the best paid NYPD worker final yr, accused Maddrey of sexually harassing her for greater than a yr – a cost he’s denied.

Nonetheless, the NYPD bigwig resigned Friday night time shortly after The Submit contacted him in regards to the bombshell allegations.

Amid an inner probe into her beautiful OT haul, Epps was suspended final week earlier than she leveled the allegations in opposition to Maddrey in an unique interview with The Submit. She is combating for her reinstatement with a watch on retiring after 19 years on the job.

Adams didn’t point out the raging scandal in his memo.

A Metropolis Corridor spokesperson instructed The Submit Thursday night the directive, which took impact instantly, speaks for itself.  

The mayor desires every division to submit month-to-month experiences and have month-to-month conferences with their assigned in a single day workplaces.

A remediation plan may must be submitted if a division isn’t slashing sufficient extra time, Adams added.  

He additionally wrote that the commissioner of every company should “personally overview” the highest extra time earners of their division no less than as soon as each three months “to make sure extra time is being distributed equitable and to keep away from potential abuse.”

“Controlling using extra time, together with paid compensatory time, shall be the direct accountability of every Company’s commissioner,” Adams wrote in one of many new directives. “Approvals for such time utilization could also be made solely by Company personnel who report on to the Company’s commissioner.”

He famous that every company can nonetheless dole out extra time to its employees to “meet emergency service calls for.”

However cautioned, “using extra time to fulfill emergency service calls for might require a discount of non-emergency extra time if such emergency prices trigger an Company to overspend in opposition to its plan with out prior notification.”

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch has spent a lot of her first month on the job cleansing home throughout the division, together with high-profile personnel strikes.