The Alaska State Division of Finance’s payroll services team is facing high vacancy rates resulting in the wearing down of morale along with errors and delays in services, which will likely have no end soon.
The payroll services section is in charge of paying Alaska’s 14,000 state employees, but there have been reports of employees getting paid late and sometimes the wrong amount.
“When you don’t treat employees well, when you don’t treat them with good pay, with good benefits, like a living wage and a pension, you’re going to lose employees, you’re not going to be able to attract employees to state service and you’re not going to be able to maintain employees who are working for the state and that’s what we see happening,” Drygas said.
Drygas says the notice of pay problems is being unaddressed and unresolved due to the state not having the staff to keep up with the workload. Drygas maintains it’s impacting businesses too by hampering oil and gas leases, fisheries, and others. Kasper believes the issue could get really bad and thinks the state is failing to operate basic functions of business.
“In the short-term, the Department of Administration is reassigning staff that have previous payroll experience from DOA divisions to the Division of Finance payroll team and ramping up job recruitment efforts while working to accommodate employees’ abilities to process payroll remotely,” Truitt wrote in an email.
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