Turns out the number of state Department of Transportation employees who were shortchanged on their pay today is larger than officials first thought.
State Controller Robert L. Powell says that 407 employees missed out on a total of $288,954, Pat Stith reports.
To make up for that checks will be delivered this afternoon to employees who work in the Raleigh area, he said. Checks for other employees will be delivered Saturday to a DOT facility where they can pick them up.
That's faster than depositing the money directly in their bank accounts, Powell said.
He said the underpayments, totaling a week's pay for many of the employees, was due to a human error made while the payroll system was being "tweaked" to fix something else.
Powell, whose agency is responsible for the payroll, said he would apologize to the employees who were not paid in full on time.
"It's a new system," he said. "It just happened. We're fixing it."
