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Cerner Faces Another Lawsuit Over Its Overtime Policy

KCUR
The latest overtime lawsuit against Cerner Corp. alleges it failed to pay overtime to help desk workers.

Another class-action lawsuit alleging Cerner illegally failed to pay employees overtime wages has been filed against the health care technology company.

It’s at least the fourth lawsuit now pending against Cerner over its overtime policy. This one claims that Cerner’s help desk workers were expected to work at least 48 hours a week but weren’t paid overtime. Eric Dirks, an attorney for the plaintiff, said the case likely involves hundreds of workers.

"There are multiple different job titles which we believe have been misclassified,” Dirks said. 

Werner says it does not comment on pending litigation. But it argues in other cases that the workers in question are “computer professionals” or “administrative employees” who are exempt from overtime requirements under federal overtime law.

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Dan Margolies is editor in charge of health news at KCUR, the public radio station in Kansas City. Dan joined KCUR in April 2014. In a long and varied journalism career, he has worked as a reporter for the Kansas City Business Journal, The Kansas City Star and Reuters. In a previous life, he was a lawyer. He has also worked as a media insurance underwriter and project development director for a video production firm.