Cargill Workers Get Nod for Deal Ending Kronos-Hack Wage Case

Cargill Inc. and workers who say it owes them pay after a cyberattack briefly disrupted the third-party timekeeping system the company uses secured a federal judge’s approval for their multimillion-dollar settlement.

The deal provides $2.4 million in new funds and formalizes the agricultural company’s promise to forgive nearly $16 million in outage-linked overpayments, according to settlement documents the workers filed in the US District Court for the District of Minnesota.

The settlement class covers everyone who worked for Cargill or any of its subsidiaries during the December 2021 Kronos outage or its aftermath, worked more than 40 hours in a ...