Secretary Ben Barnes sent a letter to Governor Dannel P. Malloy highlighting a new report from the Office of Fiscal Analysis (OFA) on the 14% reduction in overtime among state agencies for the last fiscal year, part of Secretary Barnes’s and Governor Malloy’s efforts to ensure State government remains efficient.

“This an encouraging report – we are working closely with our agencies to hold down overtime. LEAN techniques are working, and the state is moving forward. This is good news and no doubt a positive step” Secretary Barnes said. “We still have much more work to do, but I am confident we are moving in the right direction in our efforts to right-size government spending to align it with revenues.”

The OFA report shows that in the 2016 fiscal year, state agencies had decreased overtime use by about 14%, even as there were 5% fewer employees earning overtime. In FY2015, there were 19,726 employees earning overtime which cost the state $237,595,239. In contrast, in FY2016, 18,737 employees earned overtime at a cost to the state of $204,678,473. In total, the savings are $32,916,766.

In addition, the report shows that five agencies (Department of Correction, Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, Department of Developmental Services, Department of Children and Families, and the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection) are responsible for 90% of the overtime reduction.

(Press Release)

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