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An Oakland City University women\u2019s soccer coach has filed a lawsuit against the university that claims the school hasn\u2019t paid her or other employees since late April.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Plaintiff Chelsea Price filed the lawsuit on June 1 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana and is seeking class action status to\u00a0represent\u00a0other employees in the same situation.\u00a0The lawsuit names Oakland City University, a private college in southwest Indiana, as the defendant.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to the lawsuit, Price has not been paid since April 27. She estimates that more than 100 university employees also haven\u2019t been paid despite doing their jobs.<\/p>\n
Attorneys for Price did not\u00a0immediately\u00a0respond to a request for comment.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Indiana Lawyer reached out to Todd Mosby, the university\u2019s associate vice president for development, marketing and communications, for comment Wednesday but did not hear back before this story was published.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A similar lawsuit was filed against Oakland City University at the state level. On June 8, James Wilder, who is currently employed in a donor relations and marketing assistant role at Oakland City, filed a lawsuit in Gibson Superior Court against the university, claiming he\u2019s not been paid for at least three weeks. He filed the lawsuit under the Indiana Wage Payment Statute.\u00a0<\/p>\n
His attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n
The lawsuits follow an announcement earlier this spring that the university would be laying off more than 100 employees due to ongoing financial troubles.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
In April, Oakland City filed a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, or WARN, with the Indiana Department of Workforce Development, saying it would lay off 167 employees starting June 1,\u00a0Inside INdiana Business reported<\/a>. Mosby said at the time that the filing was only precautionary.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n A May 19 news release from the university announced that the layoffs would be effective May 31, but it\u00a0didn\u2019t\u00a0specify how many employees would be affected.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n