A former human resources executive claims she warned Accenture’s board it was at risk of having to back pay up to $40 million to staff who worked excessive hours.
Already a subscriber?Accenture was warned that it could face up to $40 million in backpay from staff working excessive hours and that its overtime system represented an “ongoing” underpayment risk, according to a former human resources executive.
The alleged warning came around the same time that top-tier law firms, such as Ashurst and Herbert Smith Freehills, wereaudited payA spokeswoman for Accenture, which has yet to file a defence, said, “we do not comment on pending legal matters, nor do we comment on individual personnel matters”. Ms Young denied shutting down a review into the issue and said the HR staffer was relatively inexperienced and her view was inaccurate.
Later that month, a week before the firm moved to Accenture’s global platform for recording overtime, Ms Young said she drafted staff communications about how they could claim historical pre-approved overtime up to the last day of the old platform. She said she told the board that in the past six months the firm had been dealing with 180 informal notices of work distress, including fatigue, and one formalised notice of a perceived unhealthy working environment involving high pressure and a blame culture.
From June 2021 to May 2023, she says she regularly complained to the HR leadership and senior management about the gap between the overtime hours staff recorded and the lower number of hours they claimed as compensation in the new system.
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