NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) — A New York City Transit employee served an unpaid suspension after racking up more than $300,000 from undisclosed side hustles, MTA Inspector General Daniel G. Cort announced Thursday.
The employee has worked as an overnight structure maintainer of subway tunnels for NYC Transit since 2012, but took on side work from at least nine private businesses between April 2020 and July 2024, an investigation revealed.
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The employee violated his job’s rest requirement at least 32 times and did not disclose the side gigs as NYC Transit requires, according to Cort’s report.
“This employee’s behavior jeopardized both his safety and the safety of others,” said Cort. “Outside employment rules exist for good reason: to safeguard the system, its workforce, and its customers; to avoid conflicts of interest; and to prevent time abuse.”…