PPG Hit With Employee Wage Class Action Over Kronos Hack

PPG Industries Inc. is facing a proposed class action alleging the company underpaid thousands of employees when its timekeeping and payroll system was hacked.

PPG uses the Kronos time keeping system, which became inoperative due to a ransomware attack from Dec. 11, 2021 through February 2022, according to the complaint, filed Wednesday in the US District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

Over the several week outage period, PPG paid its employees an estimated weekly pay that didn’t reflect the actual hours worked, the complaint alleges.

Lead plaintiff Christian Rodriguez alleges that the estimated weekly wage payments he received ...