A Rio Arriba County employee who recently received tens of thousands of dollars in overtime pay, appears to be sleeping while on the job in a photo recently obtained by the Rio Grande SUN.
The photo shows interim jail administrator Adeline Martinez sitting with her eyes closed, head tilted back and feet on top of a desk, with her hands tucked underneath her safety vest. In front of her is a computer monitor showing video feeds of at least 25 security cameras. According to the photo data, the picture was taken on April 22.
Martinez was made the temporary Rio Arriba County Detention Center administrator while Jose Gallegos was on Family and Medical Act (FMLA) leave from August to January. He is no longer employed as the jail administrator and an advertisement was placed announcing the position.
The SUN submitted an Inspection of Public Records Request to Rio Arriba County and obtained Martinez’s timesheets from Sept. 29, 2024, through May 10. This includes nine of the 11 timesheets from her time as interim administrator. Eight of the nine timesheets show all hours worked during complete two-week pay periods.
Rate of pay
According to personnel action forms obtained by the SUN, Martinez’s regular hourly pay rate is $25.52. Her pay increased by $6.48, to $32 per hour, when she began the temporary assignment on Aug. 30.
FSLA-eligible non-exempt Detention Center employees can receive overtime pay at 1.5 times their hourly rate, according to their union’s collective bargaining agreement from April 2018. Whether Martinez is a non-exempt employee is unclear. A 2022 personnel action form granting her a monthly $75 cellphone allowance indicates she is an exempt employee, which would make her ineligible to collect overtime. Prior to 2022, the sections of her personnel action forms that show her employee classification type are either left blank or indicate she is a classified employee. The forms date back to when the county hired her in October 2014.
After 2022, the documents show Martinez only received personnel action notification forms, which do not have a space to indicate employment type.
Exactly how much money Martinez made doing overtime is unclear, but calculations show the total from Sept. 29 to Jan. 20 is at least $24,000. This does not include one month of pay at her interim rate.
Martinez is paid $25.52 per hour, for 42 hours per week, according to the timesheets, or $2,143.68 per pay period. Her $6.48 per hour increase brought her total hourly wage to $32, or $2,688 per week. All overtime hours are paid at time-and-a-half, or $48 per hour.
Calculations show Martinez’s regular wages during this period would have been around $17,000. Her temporary increase of $6.48 per hour netted her around $4,300. She made at least $20,000 more in overtime.
Martinez logged the most overtime from Oct. 28 to Nov. 12, around 40 hours. The next-highest amount of overtime occurred from Jan. 13 to Jan. 18, 2025, around 39 hours.
No comment
An email was sent to County Manager Jeremy Maestas and asked whether any disciplinary action would be taken as a result of Martinez sleeping on the job.
He was also asked if she has been disciplined before for sleeping on the job and asked for comment on the photo.
“I have received your email and will be looking into this matter further,” Maestas responded. “In regards to the remainder of your questions this is a personnel matter and I have no further comment. Thank you.”