Black Friday brings late paychecks in 1 county
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — About 1,200 government employees in a northeast Pennsylvania county are being paid late on Black Friday after the person in charge of payroll was on vacation and did not approve an electronic transfer.
Luzerne County administration officials said they had corrected the error by Friday afternoon.
The Citizens Voice’ newspaper of Wilkes-Barre reported that some employees were paid in the early afternoon, while payments were in the works for others.
County Manager Robert Lawton apologized.
A union official, Paula Schnelly, says she’d received calls and texts from employees missing their electronically deposited paychecks. One county employee, John Engleman, posted a comment on the newspaper’s Facebook page saying he’d received five insufficient fund charges tied to automatic bill payments he had set up.