Workers at the Community Medical Center in Missoula, Montana, have accused employers of underpaying them. Missourian Reported on February 17th.
The class action was filed in the 4th District Court of Justice in Montana on 16 February.
Workers claim that the Community Medical Center issued them inaccurate salaries after December 12, 2021 and underpaid them based on their working hours thereafter. The proceedings also allege that since December 12, 2021, hospitals have miscounted workers’ personal allowances.
The proceedings allege that around December 11, 2021, the hospital instructed some or all employees to manually begin tracking time. Workers claim that employees followed those instructions, but the hospital did not use the time card to determine the amount of employee salary.
“Instead, the CMC has decided to issue employees, including the plaintiff, the last salary before December 12, 2021,” the proceedings said.
The proceedings also stated that workers have different shifts, different working hours and different types of incentive compensation. shift.
Workers have accused the hospital of violating Montana’s Wage Protection Act and are seeking full amounts of unpaid wages, allowances, compensatory damages, fines, lawyer costs and other costs.
A spokesperson for the Community Medical Center couldn’t comment immediately, Becker’s If you receive a comment, we will update the story.
The issue of paying workers at the Community Medical Center was previously highlighted in a letter sent by the Montana Nurses Association to the hospital’s CEO, Bob Gomez, on January 4. Becker’s..
The letter accused the hospital of not paying the nurses accurately during some payment periods.
In a statement shared with Becker’s At the time, hospitals attributed this issue to a ransomware issue with the Kronos Enterprise System, a cloud-based timekeeping platform.
As of mid-January, at least 11 hospital workers were still experiencing payment issues due to the ransomware attack on the Kronos Private Cloud on December 11.
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