Report I2018-1 Recommendations

Ensure that the LVN begins performing duties appropriate for her classification as a nurse who provides patient care.

Remove the LVN's scheduler access to the scheduling software.

Utilize appropriate administrative staff to perform scheduling duties.

Ensure that scheduling staff use the appropriate post codes in the scheduling software for all nursing staff so their time is accurately reported.

Ensure that all other nursing staff assignments to ad hoc posts are appropriate, and require schedulers to enter a note in the scheduling software indicating an employee's duties while in a general ad hoc post.

Provide training to the nursing director regarding the requirements for temporary employee reassignments, including proper documentation.

Provide training to the nursing director and the LVN on Correctional Health Care's policy on personal relationships in the employment setting.

Consider disciplinary action against the nursing director and the LVN for being dishonest when interviewed and for violating Correctional Health Care's policy on personal relationships in the employment setting.

Take appropriate corrective action against the employee, including documenting his attendance abuse in his personnel or supervisory file.

Require the supervisor to implement policies and procedures to ensure his subordinates account for all of their missed work hours.

Implement a cost-effective plan to install and use the quick charger in a campus project or develop plans to transfer it to another university or state agency.

Establish a check-and-balance process regarding procurement decisions to prevent future wasteful purchases.

Take appropriate disciplinary actions against Employee A for his continued time and attendance abuse and for his dishonesty when attempting to conceal his actions.

Take appropriate disciplinary actions against Employee B for her continued time and attendance abuse and for her dishonesty when attempting to conceal her actions.

Investigate Employee B's relative for potential time and attendance abuse because the relative, who also works at Fresno State, was observed leaving campus for long periods of time.

Assign Employees A and B to a lead employee who is trained regarding his or her responsibility to ensure that these two employees perform their duties and report any time away from their assigned duties.

Take appropriate corrective actions against the supervisor and other relevant managers for failing to adequately address these employees' substantial time and attendance abuse.

Determine the amount of time Employees A and B can be charged to account for their missed work hours, reduce their leave balances accordingly, and, if applicable, seek to recover from them any wages paid to them for time they did not work.

Take appropriate disciplinary action against the employee for sleeping on the job for hours each day and failing to adequately perform her duties.

Take appropriate corrective or disciplinary actions against the supervisors for failing to adequately address the employee's consistent pattern of sleeping during work hours and failing to perform her duties.

Seek repayment from the analyst for the $2,925 in improper payments.

Fully implement and continue to follow recommendations from prior investigative reports involving similar inappropriate inmate supervision pay at other CDCR facilities, including the recommendation to train all employees who receive, approve, or issue the inmate supervision pay.

Provide additional training to the individuals involved in this investigation regarding the eligibility requirements for inmate supervision pay and overpayment procedures.

Revise the prison's inmate supervision pay approval form to include the date on which the employee received inmate supervision pay training and require signatures on each form from the employee, supervisor, and personnel staff to show that they received the training and are aware of the rules regarding inmate supervision pay.

Take appropriate disciplinary action against the assistant chief.

Modify its standard rental agreement with tenants to limit the State's potential liability by providing more specificity with regard to making improvements or alterations to its rental properties, ensuring that tenants maintain renter's insurance, clarifying that CAL FIRE is not responsible for any personal property damage or loss, and ensuring the tenants and their guests do not interfere with the convenience of other residents of rental properties.