Documents leaked to The Bush Chicken have revealed that 23 employees at Tubman University are receiving dual salaries from multiple positions, including several senior level employees.

The May 2016 payroll, along with other documents, were leaked by members of the faculty senate who did so anonymously for fear of retribution.

The senior staff members were being paid for their regular position in addition to a temporary position in which they were serving as interim appointees.

The name of Johnny C. Woods appeared for the salary of the chief of staff for presidential affairs/board liaison, in addition to salary for his role as the interim vice president for administration.

The payroll also showed Alex Cooper to be on the payroll as assistant vice president for research, sponsor programs and economic development, in addition to what appeared to be an overlapping role as interim vice president for sponsor programs and economic development.

Tarkolo Miller is another employee shown to be paid at the director of information technology and another position labeled as “acting, academic computer services.”

Salaries of high-level employees at Tubman University.

When The Bush Chicken contacted Cooper and Woods, they directed all comments to Aryee Kotatee Williams, the assistant vice president for human resources and compliances.

Williams, in an email, said six employees at the university currently occupied two positions, with one position being permanent and the other being temporary.

Without mentioning the names and positions occupied by these employees, Williams said the university has a policy that when an employee is acting or given additional responsibility for a vacant position, a fraction of the salary/allowance for the vacant position is allotted to the employee acting in the position until the position is filled.

The Bush Chicken could not independently verify how long the three individuals had occupied both positions, but anonymous members of the faculty senate estimated the number of years to be seven for Woods.

Elizabeth Davis-Russell, who was president of the university until a few months ago, has yet to respond on the issue.

George Werner, the Minister of Education and former Director General of the Civil Service Agency, said such incidents where individuals were in acting positions similar to their own should not warrant extra pay.

“Under the civil service system, you don’t pay an assistant director more money for acting because the director is out,” he said. “It’s part of your terms of references. Because at the end of the terms of references you see ‘and many other responsibilities,’ so you step in when the director proper is not in.”

He said allowances were more appropriate for compensating employees for extra work, which he said is at the discretion of the institution’s head and subjective to an employee’s performance.

However, Werner said Tubman University is an autonomous government institution, which means they do not necessarily have to follow civil service regulations. But he said “most of the supreme court decisions are made according to the civil service regulations for government employees in general.”

Jefferson Krua contributed to this article.