UPEA Officers and Employee Representatives are currently attending the Audit Subcommittee Meeting. Committee members are currently discussing the 4-Tens Work Week audit.
Representative Dave Clark, R-Santa Clara, stood up for employees after auditors lambasted flexible schedule benefits found in the 4-Tens work week. He said, "I don't want to connote that well intentioned benefits encourage the proverbial UDOT worker leaning on a shovel. I would want [the Executive Branch] to take a conscientious look at policy."
Clark agreed that productivity needs to be measured and decisions made on metrics.
Lietentant Governor, Greg Bell, highlighted increasing workloads and decreasing budgets to emphasize how employees have increased productivty through "doing more with less."
Overall, the audit called for better measurements and flexibility within government to address customers' needs. The audit did not recommend eliminating 4-Tens and the committee complimented the Executive Branch for addressing the program.
More to come as it happens.
