A bill to change the Department of Homeland Security’s overtime-pay policies is slated to be introduced in the next few weeks by Sen. John Tester (D-Mont.) and Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah).
According to a Washington Post article, the legislation is being called a long-term solution for providing DHS border agents with fair compensation while cutting down on abuses, which whistleblowers say have cost the government more than $8.7 million a year. A report issued last week by the federal Office of Special Counsel found that some DHS employees were using “Administratively Uncontrollable Overtime” to pad their paychecks.