Los Angeles Fire Department Employees May Have Been Overpaid During Pandemic, Report Finds

A Los Angeles County firefighter directs traffic at a drive-up coronavirus testing site in Redondo Beach, Calif., on April 3, 2020. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP) Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images

Some Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) employees stationed at COVID-19 testing sites accumulated a significant amount of overtime payment “that was unwarranted or unworked,” according to a recent Los Angeles Controller report.

Los Angeles Controller Ron Galperin released the report, which examined overtime logged by LAFD employees stationed at COVID-19 testing sites in 2020.