DOH Workers Will Be Asked About Second Jobs

The West Virginia Department of Transportation is cracking down on highway engineers who have second jobs with private firms that pose a conflict of interest. The Gazette-Mail reports the department has ordered employees to disclose if they’ve been moonlighting with outside companies that could pose a conflict of interest or if they are being done on state time. The new measures come after an executive at a highway contracting business and a professor who works at Marshall University’s Rahall Appalachian Transportation Institute were charged in a kickback scheme involving companies in South Carolina and Putnam County. Workers face disciplinary actions if they do not fill out personnel forms regarding second jobs by Dec. 16.