[US] Payroll system errors continue to plague San Francisco teachers

In the eight months since the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD)  updated its payroll system, problems remain. Local news coverage suggests that hundreds of teachers and staff are dealing with the financial burdens of payroll errors such as misclassifications of credentials, tax deductions and health benefits, KALW News reports.

According to reporting from Mission Local, the District hired Alvarez & Marsal, an international management consulting firm, on a nearly $3 million contract to address the payroll errors plaguing the EMPowerSF system.

For some of those affected, the consequences of these errors have already been devastating. In a region where - according to a United Way study - one in four families struggle to afford food, housing, and medical care, such errors only compound the challenges for teachers and their families surviving in the Bay Area.

Reports of unpaid rent and bills and lowered credit scores, were among some of the many consequences of these payroll errors, according to the Mission Local. More than 70 grievances related to payroll were reported to Cassondra Curiel, president of the teachers union United Educators San Francisco.

Source: KALW News

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In the eight months since the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD)  updated its payroll system, problems remain. Local news coverage suggests that hundreds of teachers and staff are dealing with the financial burdens of payroll errors such as misclassifications of credentials, tax deductions and health benefits, KALW News reports.

According to reporting from Mission Local, the District hired Alvarez & Marsal, an international management consulting firm, on a nearly $3 million contract to address the payroll errors plaguing the EMPowerSF system.

For some of those affected, the consequences of these errors have already been devastating. In a region where - according to a United Way study - one in four families struggle to afford food, housing, and medical care, such errors only compound the challenges for teachers and their families surviving in the Bay Area.

Reports of unpaid rent and bills and lowered credit scores, were among some of the many consequences of these payroll errors, according to the Mission Local. More than 70 grievances related to payroll were reported to Cassondra Curiel, president of the teachers union United Educators San Francisco.

Source: KALW News

(Links via original reporting)