{"id":472293,"date":"2026-09-22T21:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T21:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/472293\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T21:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T21:02:10","slug":"former-employees-say-ocu-administration-has-gone-silent-as-they-still-await-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/472293\/","title":{"rendered":"Former employees say OCU administration has \u2018gone silent\u2019 as they still await pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">OAKLAND CITY, Ind. (WFIE) &#8211; Former employees of Oakland City University say the administration has quote \u201cgone silent\u201d as they still await payment from months ago. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link | text-reset d-block h-100 w-100\" href=\"https:\/\/www.14news.com\/page\/14-news-streaming-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"wfie apps\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/3ABJKZTA4RCT5CI42747VCTX3M.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">One employee says he\u2019s still waiting for two paychecks plus vacation time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He says OCU has shut off power to their buildings, and they aren\u2019t responding to his wage claim. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Another employee, who was supposed to be paid over 12 months for a nine-month contract, says he also hasn\u2019t been paid. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">We reached out to OCU President Dr. Ron Dempsy Tuesday morning to ask for updates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He said he would get back to us this week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.14news.com\/2026\/08\/24\/ocu-starts-semester-with-61-students\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.14news.com\/2026\/08\/24\/ocu-starts-semester-with-61-students\/\">[OCU starts semester with 61 students]<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">More than 100 employees were laid off in May, and the university suspended all undergraduate programs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Most employees missed a total of four paychecks after the layoffs. Some of that money was eventually paid after several weeks. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WFIE. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND CITY, Ind. (WFIE) &#8211; Former employees of Oakland City University say the administration has quote \u201cgone silent\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[111020,9520,185757,143,64895,111019,145,144,111018,111021],"class_list":["post-472293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-14-news","tag-indiana","tag-missed-paychecks","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-city","tag-oakland-city-university","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-ocu","tag-wfie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}