Cerner to pay $4.5 million to settle class-action overtime suit

Healthcare IT News: Cerner will pay $4.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit that had spent three years in court, after employees charged that it had improperly avoided paying overtime wages.

U.S. District Judge Fernando J. Gaitan, Jr., of the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri, approved the settlement – which Cerner had first agreed to back in April – earlier this month.

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