The NewsGuild of New York accused the New York Times of wage theft for $122,742.77 in unpaid overtime in an internal memo to union members obtained by TheWrap on Wednesday.
The memo came as the newspaper prepares to remedy the overtime gap and pay those owed for additional hours.
According to the memo, union members noticed a “major flaw in the company’s system for paying overtime” and approached management about the issue. The issue stemmed from when Times employees submitted overtime hours through Workday, their manager was notified to approve or deny the request. However, if the manager “never took action on the notification or missed the deadline, that left the hours in limbo.”
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