An outspoken member of Black Lives Matter Toronto is being sued after leaving her job with UofT’s student union with a $277,508 severance deal that included 1,975 hours of overtime.

The union wants former executive director Sandra “Sandy” Hudson and her co-defendants — who allegedly approved the package — to jointly pay it back, along with another $200,000 in damages for breach of fiduciary duty.

The severance payment equals approximately 10% of the union’s annual operating budget.

In its statement of claim, the union alleges Hudson received 3.6 years of her base salary after only working there 2 1/2 years.

Hudson, the claim says, filed for 1,975 hours of overtime on April 1, 2015. Before that date, it says, she “had never recorded any overtime hours into her personnel file.”

The union says Hudson wasn’t entitled to overtime pay because she was a manager. She filed for all the overtime the day after an election was held to choose the next executive committee, the statement says. The deal was reached on April 16, 2015, and the two defendants who allegedly signed off were both leaving their posts at the end of the month.

None of the allegations have been proven in court.

“With weeks remaining in their tenure, the two defendants acted with a total disregard for the interests of the (University of Toronto Students’ Union) when they made or participated in the decision to dismiss Hudson without cause and paid her an excessive severance package,” the statement of claim says.

Hudson’s statement of defence says she committed no wrongdoing.

She was legally entitled to the overtime because she had worked “long hours, primarily in non-managerial tasks,” racking up 211 hours in March and April 2015.

She denies the union’s allegation that there was “no legitimate business reason for her termination agreement and mutual release” and that they are “oppressive” and “unconscionable.”

When the Sun asked Hudson about the lawsuit, she responded, “I’m not going to comment on your story.

“This is a private interest. My life is a private matter. You’re wasting my time.”

spazzano@sunmedia.ca