Bloomberg Law reports that MultiCare Health System will get another chance to avoid liability for attempts to recoup wage overpayments in litigation following a hack of its vendor timekeeping system Kronos in 2021. With the timekeeping system not functioning due to a ransomware attack, many firms wound up using old wage statements or other methods as bases for paying employees. In this particular case:
There’s a genuine dispute over whether the health system’s overpayments were infrequent and inadvertent under a state law on recouping wage overpayments, so the trial court shouldn’t have granted summary judgment to three worker unions, the Washington Court of Appeals, Division I, said Monday.
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