Centene Corp., a subsidiary, and customer service representatives who say the company underpaid call center workers won court approval for a settlement ending their wage-and-hour dispute.
The deal requires the St. Louis-based health-care company to put up to $375,500 in a gross settlement fund, with more than half that amount—as much as $214,000—going toward attorneys’ fees for the workers’ lawyers, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri said.
The workers accuse Centene of instructing them not to record certain work hours, such as time spent logging in and out of required computer programs before and after ...
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