The City of Seattle is facing a wage theft lawsuit over errors from a new system that handles payroll for its more than 13,000 workers.
The new suit alleges the city’s implementation of the Workday payroll system has caused “problems related to underpayments, incorrect paycheck deductions, missing leave accruals, and excessive overpayment deductions,” Geekwire reports.
“The suit was filed on behalf of three plaintiffs representing themselves and other similarly affected employees. Nathaniel Hunter is a senior engineering specialist supervisor with the Drainage and Wastewater Department, employed by the City of Seattle for 12 years; Travis Stanley is a firefighter with the Seattle Fire Department, employed by the city for close to 28 years; and Aaron Dalan is a sergeant with the Seattle Police Department, employed by the city for 15 years,” Geekwire reports.
Dale W. Cannon, Secretary/Treasurer and Business Manager of Laborers, LiUNA Local 242 said:
“Workday has been nothing short of a nightmare from the day it was initiated. Consistently our members have not been paid correctly for their work in keeping the City of Seattle operating,” Dale Cannon, a representative for Laborers’ Local 242 said in a statement from unions representing city workers. “The City has failed to correct their systemic errors, resulting in non-payment of wages, sick leave, holiday pay, shift differential, retirement pensions, deferred comp and Union dues to each of the represented Unions. Laborers Local Union 242 stands in firm solidarity with all Unions and our City of Seattle members who have been economically impacted by Workday.”
The lawsuit is seeking class status for city employees and relief including fixing or replacing the payroll system and compensation for unpaid wages.
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The state of Washington is going to be using workday but just delayed the first part of the transition to Workday off by one year. Why has workday seemingly not learned from their past mistakes with the State of Oregon?
Woooooo… progressive policy! Can’t wait to see how this housing initiative is gonna pan out. Nothing like a bunch of socialist born in capitalism promising not be tempted.
City employees, IT, HR, Payroll all knew very well how bad Workday was when it was first announced over a year ago, nobody at the City wanted it. One could easily search Workday and see the trail of failure and wasted funds they leave behind.
Yet Workday was spearheaded and pushed through by Bruce Harrell. He even sent a “Mission Accomplished” email after the first week of launch after things had already blown up. Now his administration is being tight lipped about how many tens of millions have been shoveled into this seemingly infinite dumpster fire while the Council struggled with a $200 million deficit.
I wouldn’t exactly call Bruce a progressive, socialist pariah, but don’t let me get in the way of your stable-genius rant. Luckily the housing initiative was set up exactly so Bruce can’t get his grubby hands on any of the funds, which was what his 1B initiative would have done.
Tim, are you Savage? Lol