{"id":6670,"date":"2011-02-28T09:10:05","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T14:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=6670"},"modified":"2011-02-28T09:10:05","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T14:10:05","slug":"bec-employees-padding-overtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/02\/bec-employees-padding-overtime","title":{"rendered":"BEC Employees Padding Overtime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A confidential report for the Government by German  consultants show that over 2000,000 hours of staff overtime was booked by BEC employees during its 2009 financial year.\u00a0 That is equivalent to an astonishing one  hour of overtime per day for every employee.<\/p>\n<p>Describing this level of overtime as &#8220;questionable&#8221;, the study called &#8220;Strengthening the Energy Sector  in the Bahamas&#8221; was part of an Inter-American Development  Bank (IDB) funded project.\u00a0 More shocking, is the fact that during BEC&#8217;s 2008 financial year,  the amount of booked overtime hours was &#8220;double&#8221; the 2009 total &#8211; meaning  there were more than 400,000 hours of overtime booked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 2008-2009, 210,000 thousand hours of overtime have been booked,  which amounts to approximately one hour a day for every employee,&#8221; the  Fichtner report on BEC&#8217;s operations noted. &#8220;The year before, volume was  double that value. This volume is questionable even if the recruitment  stop is taken into account.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A confidential report for the Government by German consultants show that over 2000,000 hours of staff overtime was booked by BEC employees during its 2009 financial year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[90,93,68],"class_list":["post-6670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-bec","tag-corruption","tag-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}