Health System Gets Unions’ Kronos Pay Case Win Undone on Appeal

MultiCare Health System can try again to avoid liability for its attempts to recoup wage overpayments stemming from a hack of third-party timekeeping system Kronos, a Washington state appeals court said.

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.

MultiCare, which has approximately 20,000 employees, sought to recover excess payments it made to workers after a December 2021 cyberattack took Ultimate Kronos Group’s timekeeping ...