State audit finds privatized payroll often late, wrong
Source: By POLLY ROSS HUGHES, Houston Chronicle (TX), Jan. 18, 2006, 12:34AM
AUSTIN - Health department staffers discovered overdrafts on their personal checking accounts last fall when a private payroll contractor missed deposit deadlines for 80 workers, according to a highly critical state audit released Tuesday. Other state workers reported that they didn't get paid on time or they didn't get paid correctly, including for overtime. But when the Texas Health and Human Services Commission stepped in to fix problems under a contract with the global billing services firm, Convergys Corp., new obstacles arose.