Metro GM defends five-figure overtime payouts

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Metro is going to pay out large amounts of overtime for the near future, the transit agency’s general manager said. The Washington Examiner reported Monday that the 10 employees who logged the most extra hours in January and February all worked more than an extra full-time job’s worth of overtime on top of their regular schedules.

One construction inspector earned more than $32,000 in two months by working the equivalent of 16-hour days every single day in the period for which Metro provided data.

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