Seven Massachusetts Department of Transportation employees were placed on administrative leave following a months-long investigation. The investigation alleged that high-earning employees falsified timesheets to receive overtime payments. MassDOT stated that employees must accurately report time worked and that supervisors must properly review and certify time records, as required by law. The investigation reportedly involved an undercover effort lasting 231 days. Vehicle departure times from the MassDOT District Six facility in Charlestown were compared with timesheets obtained through public records requests. Reported findings included employees leaving in personal vehicles hours before their shifts ended, with vehicles tracked leaving the yard and being observed outside homes. The report focused on Highway Maintenance Worker II employees, including one with about $84,000 base salary and about $149,000 in overtime.
"MassDOT takes any allegation of improperly reporting time worked extremely seriously. Not only do we expect all employees to accurately report time worked and supervisors to properly review and certify time records - it's the law,"
"If anyone is found to have been intentionally misreporting their time or misusing taxpayer dollars, they will be held accountable."
"After a 231-day undercover investigation, Boston 25 News reported that the top-earning highway maintenance workers in Massachusetts are concentrated at the MassDOT District Six facility in Charlestown. The reporters logged vehicle departure times from the Charlestown yard and compared them to timesheets obtained through public record requests, finding that multiple top-earners left in their personal vehicles hours before their shifts ended."
"Boston News 25 used the employee's vehicles as a way to track their actual hours worked, including watching the cars leave the yard and observing their vehicles outside of their homes. Highway Maintenance Worker II employees were at the center of Boston 25 News's investigation, including the highest earner of that group. In 2025, his base salary was about $84,000, but he earned $149,000 in overtime."
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