State's new computer system hampers payroll for employees, audit finds
West Virginia’s $150 million wvOasis supercomputer lacks payroll functions that were available on older, previously used state computers, requiring Division of Personnel to hire additional employees to process payroll, a legislative audit released Sunday concluded.
According to the audit, the Division of Personnel cites nine areas of lost functionality with the new computer system that hamper processing payroll for state employees.
Among the issues cited, if the wvOasis system rejects a transaction, it automatically deletes all accompanying documents and attachments. Also, if an employee transfers from one state agency to another, the prior agency can no longer access that employee’s work history, or enter any outstanding payroll transactions.
Because of inefficiencies in the new system, Personnel has had to hire three employees at nearly $100,000 combined salary to process payroll transactions, the audit found.
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