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Employees, supervisors tell council unpaid overtime and missed checks threaten city operations
Summary
During public comment at the special joint meeting, Metro workers from water, waste services, libraries and schools reported unpaid overtime, missing accruals, and difficulty contacting payroll after the Oracle conversion, and warned of staff losses and operational strain.
Multiple Metro employees told the joint Government Operations and Finance committee that the January Oracle conversion left hourly workers with unpaid overtime, missing vacation and sick‑time accruals, and long delays in getting answers from payroll.
Louis Terrell, a supervisor with Metro Water, said "a lot of people in metro water are missing overtime" and that some workers have quit because overtime pay was not received. Jerome Boyd, a Waste…
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