Suffolk County Comptroller John Kennedy is assuring county employees that they will be paid on time despite the recent cyber intrusion.

Kennedy says the process has become more challenging since emails are still down. However, he says the 10,000 Suffolk employees will be paid on Thursday, which is their scheduled payday.

"Claims vouches begin their life in a paper form, but by the time they get to us we're moving in an electronic fashion," Kennedy says. "That helps, particularly when we are in times like this where we're having either communication difficulties or like we had with the pandemic, where we had the work from home option and, you know, some of the other restrictions with the quarantine."

The comptroller's office says around 80% of the employees are on direct deposit. He says there was a workaround for employees that still get an actual produced check.