T-Mobile Kronos Data Breach Overtime Class Action Overview:
- Who: T-Mobile is being sued by one of its employees.
- Why: The employee alleges that T-Mobile did not properly pay its staff following a hack of the company that managed its timekeeping and payroll systems.
- Where: The case is pending in Washington federal court.
T-Mobile stopped paying its employees the hours they were entitled to after the company that manages its timekeeping and payroll systems was hacked in 2021, a new class action lawsuit alleges.
Plaintiff Michael Burnham filed the class action complaint against T-Mobile USA, Inc. May 5 in a Washington federal court, alleging violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Like many other companies across the United States, T‐Mobile’s timekeeping and payroll systems were affected by the hack of Kronos in 2021, Burnham says in the class action lawsuit.
“That hack led to problems in timekeeping and payroll throughout T‐Mobile’s organization,” he alleges in the lawsuit. “As a result, T‐Mobile’s workers who were not exempt from overtime under federal and state law were not paid for all hours worked and/or were not timely paid proper overtime premium for all overtime hours worked after the onset of the Kronos hack.”
Burnham, who is a T-Mobile worker, said T‐Mobile could have easily implemented a system to accurately record time and properly pay non‐exempt hourly and salaried employees until issues related to the hack were resolved.
“But, upon information and belief, it did not,” he said.
T-Mobile Class Action Seeks Unpaid Wages, Damages
While T‐Mobile made payments of some previously unpaid wages after “significant delays,” at least a portion of wages earned still remain unpaid, Burnham says.
He’s looking to represent all current or former non‐exempt employees of T‐Mobile and its subsidiaries who worked in the United States at any time since the onset of the Kronos ransomware attack on Dec. 11, 2021, to now, plus a Washington class.
Burnham is seeking certification of the class action, unpaid wages, damages, fees, costs, interest and a jury trial.
The lawsuit follows a number of similar class actions brought for wage theft against other companies that used Kronos. In April, PepsiCo was hit with a class action lawsuit alleging its Kronos brand timekeeping systems in 2021 left the company unable to properly pay or give staff appropriate time off.
Meanwhile, in February, Kronos Inc. reached a settlement agreeing to pay just under $15.3 million to thousands of workers who were allegedly harmed when the workforce management company collected and stored their fingerprints or palm prints in violation of Illinois privacy laws.
Did the December 2021 Kronos ransomware attack cause you to be paid late or not be paid in full for all of your hours, including overtime, shift differentials and similar additions to pay?
If you are still owed any unpaid wages, or if your wages have been paid but were more than two to three weeks late due to the Kronos ransomware attack, you may be owed additional compensation (links to paid attorney content).
The plaintiff is represented by Matthew S Parmet of Parmet PC and Lance Loyd, Attorney at Law.
The T-Mobile Kronos Class Action Lawsuit is Michael Burnhan v. T-Mobile USA, Inc., Case No. 3:22-cv-05317, in the U.S. District Court Western District of Washington.
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4 thoughts onT-Mobile Class Action Claims Workers Not Paid Correctly Following Kronos Hack
We are 2 peas in the exact same pod. T-Mobile went to hell almost immediately after Sprint took over with all the same degenerates who ran that company into the dirt, whom I thought I had escaped after I left them over 10 years ago. Almost 10 years with T-Mobile and am terminated due to what I believe was political retaliation for being honest about what I thought regarding the direction of the company and senior management. They are incompetent, intentionally I believe, and they are greedy, not caring about employees unlike before Leger and the merger. Kronos destroyed my Christmas and it took me months to catch up and I don’t feel it was ever made right nor do I feel it was taken seriously. Unreal that there was no contingency plan in place for something like the Kronos hack, especially given their ongoing track record on cybersecurity hacks and data breeches. Unacceptable in these times. Mike Sievert is a fraud in skinny jeans.
I was also affected by the Kronos outage, we were asked to try and remember our hours but management was given the option to correct it. I alao feel that i was not paid correctly. I work in operations and I happen to be in a small group so OT was almost mandatory..
I was affected and my pay was delayed weeks. It ruined my holidays and the delay in pay was significant enough where additional compensation should have been mandatory. I don’t believe I was properly paid for wages earned but I had no way of verifying this without access to the time sheets affected by the Kronos hack. I might add that T-Mobile has had numerous data breeches not including the Kronos hack as well. My position has since been “terminated” which is pretty convenient right?
I always cell phone got hacked. It can’t keep itself charged.