PORT ANGELES — The Clallam County Sheriff’s Department will have to pony up more than $41,000 in unpaid overtime to jail supervisors who have been required to show up to work early for the past five years.
Jail sergeants have been showing up for their shifts 15 minutes early so their fellow supervisors can bring them up to speed on what’s happening at the jail.
But since the policy was instituted in 2001, the sergeants have not been getting paid for those 15 minutes.
That’s all going to change this month, when the back pay will be given to those jail supervisors, county Personnel Director Marjorie Upham said Tuesday.
Clallam County Sheriff Joe Martin said details are still being worked out about where the money will come from within the Sheriff’s Department budget.
The money is expected to be paid out March 15, Upham said.
