My Boss Fired Me After 10 Years of Running Payroll for 12,000 Workers—72 Hours Later, 1,237 Employees Had No Paycheck

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Chapter Fourteen: The Investigation

The immediate payroll crisis gradually came under control, but the company still had questions to answer.

Why had the transition been approved without adequate validation?

Which recommendations from the earlier control report had been implemented?

Who had authorized changes to the existing process?

Were the approval records complete?

And what safeguards would prevent a similar failure?

Granite’s general counsel commissioned an internal review involving finance, human resources, information technology, and the appropriate operational managers.

The review was not simply about