City of Columbus worker spent hours at casino, but city couldnt use GPS to punish
A Columbus city employee made at least six trips to the Hollywood Casino during work hours last summer, but he was never punished.
City officials said they couldn’t hold the worker accountable because the city had not yet negotiated with its unions to use GPS tracking to punish members. An arbitrator had ruled three years earlier that the two sides had to bargain over the issue, but that negotiation had never happened.
All of the human resources employees who would have been involved in the bargaining left their jobs before the oversight was discovered, said Nichole M. Brandon, the city’s human resources director.
“They were all gone,” she said. “They weren’t here. What we did was try to pick it up and move forward with it instead of looking back to see why it wasn’t bargained.”
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