SF School district approves $43k more for payroll system fix

By Allyson Aleksey : sfexaminer – excerpt
Teachers from more than 10 San Francisco public schools protest in front of SFUSD’s main office at 555 Franklin Street and blocked traffic on Franklin Street on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022…

More money is trickling into the San Francisco Unified School District’s faulty payroll system, albeit a drop of cash compared to the wave of millions spent so far.

On Tuesday, the San Francisco Board of Education voted to approve a contract amendment with SAP America, Inc., a software company that the district has worked with since 2018, to assist with its bungled payroll system EMPowerSF.

Since its rollout in January 2022, teachers have found their paychecks missing entire days of pay, retirement contributions deducted but not deposited in accounts, and more recently, errors in state tax filings

No public comment was received, and because the item was placed under the meeting’s consent calendar, there was no discussion between commissioners. As of press time, there is still no concrete date as to when the system will be fully fixed, leaving teachers in the lurch for the rest of the school year…(more)

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