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Clocked in 12 hours a day, 7 days a week: How staffing bills for Chicago's migrant shelters swelled with overtime
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo ^ | October 24, 2023 | Joe Mahr, Nell Salzman, Alice Yin and Dan Petrella

Posted on 10/24/2023 3:55:30 AM PDT by grundle

CHICAGO — When a security guard clocked out of a Streeterville migrant shelter one Friday in March, he’d just logged his 84th hour at work that week.

His bosses told the city it was at least his 56th day in a row working a 12-hour shift, according to invoices they filed with the city — invoices whose sizable overtime helped contribute to tens of millions in city payments to the firm staffing the city’s migrant shelters.

The security guard was employed by Favorite Healthcare Staffing, a national employment firm that has become the city’s biggest contractor to handle the growing migrant crisis. Under the deal, the city hired the firm to provide case workers, security guards, janitors and many other employees for the migrant shelters — at initial base rates ranging from $60 to $150 an hour.

Invoices reviewed by the Chicago Tribune show that hundreds of Favorite Staffing workers logged 84-hour workweeks — with the overtime, paid at a 50% premium, helping balloon bills that topped at least $56 million. At a Woodlawn shelter in early February, for example, two-thirds of the 50 staffers logged working at least 12 hours a day, seven days a week. At the Streeterville site one week in March, roughly 8 in 10 workers logged the same hours.

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This is time card fraud, and the government is forcing taxpayers to pay for all of it.
1 posted on 10/24/2023 3:55:30 AM PDT by grundle
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Somebody got to babysit Bidenskyyyyyy’s freeloaders. They don’t have much to do but sit around and party.


2 posted on 10/24/2023 3:58:21 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't be an attention ho. Country Music Stars aren't given Grammys by the retarded, "woke" left. )
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From 2022. Interesting timing...

Favorite Healthcare Staffing Joins Acacium Group to Become First Global Healthcare Staffing & Workforce Solutions Specialist By bringing the best of their combined staffing experiences across the US, Europe and Australia, Favorite Healthcare Staffing and Acacium Group will offer a differentiated, tech-enabled set of services

OP staffing firm sells to European company after charting explosive growth during pandemic

The Euroweenies are up to their armpits in this.

3 posted on 10/24/2023 4:02:20 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: grundle
This is time card fraud

You Betcha …

4 posted on 10/24/2023 4:05:00 AM PDT by 11th_VA (<><)
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To: mewzilla

Europe’s Deep State helped ours steal our elections and end our republic.

They are helping ours flood our country with military age males invaders.

And they are using our tax money to do it to us.


5 posted on 10/24/2023 4:05:10 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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The staffing agency can take 50% of the dollars billed to the City.
Lots of room for shenanigans
Lots of opportunity for kickbacks, just like the Mob

4) You can spend somebody else’s money on somebody else.
You become a “distributor of welfare funds.” You’re interested in making your own life as good as you can. But you’re not going to be anywhere near as careful as spending this money on other people.

In an environment where we are accustomed to spending other people’s money on someone else, we end up not maximizing the value of the dollar. We also don’t end up appreciating money as much either.


6 posted on 10/24/2023 4:05:37 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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The staffing agency can take 50% of the dollars billed to the City.
Lots of room for shenanigans
Lots of opportunity for kickbacks, just like the Mob

4) You can spend somebody else’s money on somebody else.
You become a “distributor of welfare funds.” You’re interested in making your own life as good as you can. But you’re not going to be anywhere near as careful as spending this money on other people.

In an environment where we are accustomed to spending other people’s money on someone else, we end up not maximizing the value of the dollar. We also don’t end up appreciating money as much either.


7 posted on 10/24/2023 4:05:37 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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The whole scam is a tax fraud. Of course they commit time card fraud.


8 posted on 10/24/2023 4:11:02 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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This is so much bigger than tax fraud.


9 posted on 10/24/2023 4:11:48 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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Oh I know. The whole things is a treasonous seditious conspiracy run by the new “mob.”


10 posted on 10/24/2023 4:26:09 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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This is the cost of the big guy getting his 10%. It depends upon a lot of folks looking the other way. And they do so because they get a cut. Pretty soon no one is doing productive work and the whole scheme collapses. Unfortunately the scheme in this case was the constituional government of the United States. The Austrian school already long ago told us how this ends.


11 posted on 10/24/2023 4:28:53 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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Follow the money.


12 posted on 10/24/2023 4:28:58 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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In Illinois It is illegal to work 56 days in a row. You can only work 13 days in a row - 14th day is a mandatory day off.


13 posted on 10/24/2023 5:07:50 AM PDT by EC Washington
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BTTT.


14 posted on 10/24/2023 5:46:13 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: EC Washington

I pulled 21 days in a row one time and anumber of 14 days in a row. I liked the pay checks I got.


15 posted on 10/24/2023 5:58:52 AM PDT by dynachrome (War does not determine who is right, but who is left.)
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Hey it’s Chicago the folks downstate will pay for it, no problemo🤣


16 posted on 10/24/2023 6:35:59 AM PDT by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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We are in the end-game of our progressive, printed, fiat, debt-based monetary system

interest rate manipulation and the massive debt it allows means there is always money for government and its cronies to skim, steal and conduct their social-engineering schemes.


17 posted on 10/24/2023 7:28:06 AM PDT by PGR88
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AND their pensions/retirement/SS might be based on their highest earning years wo we will be on the hook for that as well.


18 posted on 10/24/2023 7:57:25 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: grundle
Related, from Chicago via Second City Cop, note the mention of Gardaworld...

Rumors

19 posted on 10/25/2023 6:13:32 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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