PAYING DISRESPECTS
OUTRAGE and open revolt at Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, where hacks on the
Sun
,
Times
and
Sunday Times
have been told that most of them will have to work a full seven weeks without being paid next year.
“To streamline payroll operations and simplify our processes we are consolidating our payroll system,” said a missive from the company last week. Noting that the longstanding News UK payday is “out of step with the standard industry practice”, it told staff that they “will therefore be paid as usual on 6 February 2026, and the next month’s pay will be on 28 March, in arrears.”