US Airways investigating bag handlers

0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, August, 2007 | by Tom Belden Inquirer Staff Writer

US Airways has fired more than a dozen baggage handlers and is interviewing as many as 150 others at Philadelphia International Airport in connection with an alleged scheme to manipulate the records of the hours they worked, the airline said yesterday.

Some employees allegedly obtained the computer passwords of managers and used them to get access to the airline's computerized timekeeping system, where they altered records to make it appear they worked overtime when they had not, US Airways Group Inc. spokeswoman Andrea Rader said. The airline uses a timekeeping system called Workbrain.

US Airways, the airport's largest carrier, with more than 60 percent of the traffic, may seek criminal charges against some...