MISSOULA — Employees at Community Medical Center in Missoula have filed a class-action lawsuit against the for-profit healthcare corporation for not paying them properly during approximately a two-month period.
The lawsuit, filed by attorneys Nate McConnell and Raph Graybill, claims that CMC knew about the situation, which one leader called “a dumpster fire,” and it’s resulted in incorrect wages amounting to more than $100,000.
Calls made to Community Medical Center were not returned on Thursday morning.
The issue took shape in early December when software vendor Kronos was the target of a ransomware attack that cut off clients from accessing payroll information and data. Many healthcare and government organizations, as well as private industry, use the software. Different healthcare systems in Montana reported a similar outage but also said they were making arrangements to calculate payroll differently.
Community Medical Center told employees about the situation, instructed them to keep a paper timecard, but also said that full and correct paychecks would not be available until the end of January. The issue with Kronos has been solved, but the lawsuit claims that many of the Community employees were not and have not been paid properly.
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