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District fires workers in unemployment benefits probe - The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/district-fires-workers-i...
to records obtained by The Washington Post, and therefore avoided termination. The city also has decided to use alternative discipline on a handful of employees: two accepted suspensions while another returned to work after repaying the money. In those cases, the amount was significantly low or it was an oversight, Ribeiro said. DOES is conducting an audit of payments distributed since 2009. With the help of funding from the U.S. Department of Labor, the city agency said it has instituted a more comprehensive cross-checking system that compares city payroll lists, a national database of new hires and unemployment recipients. Mallory pointed to Grays mandate to eradicate waste in city government. The Gray administration had a shaky start last year, criticized for high salaries and questionable hires. Gray terminated or asked for resignations of several of those high-profile employees, and his administration now requires all employees to sign an ethics pledge. Mallory said unemployment compensation was one of the areas that DOES knew needed some housecleaning. We are not going to stand for any abuse in any of these programs, she said.
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