The Port Authority's policy of allowing suspended police officers to collect overtime without working is worse than the city's infamous "rubber rooms" -- where bad teachers get paid to sit on their butts awaiting disciplinary action, government watchdog groups said yesterday.
"That's being creative. You're not there but you can collect overtime," said Carol Kellerman, head of the Citizens Budget Commission.
"That's a better deal than the teacher rubber rooms," Kellerman said. "It's rubber rooms plus!"
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Cops 'robbers'
The New York Post reports:
