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DXC to appeal verdict after court heard biz giant deliberately shortchanged staff Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) “willfully” misclassified 1,000 of its system administrators to avoid paying the techies overtime. On Wednesday, a jury in Connecticut, USA, found in favor of staff who had brought 11 claims of labor law violations against the IT services provider. Their class-action lawsuit, launched in 2014, accused the multinational giant of failing to pay mandatory overtime. During the three-year legal battle in Connecticut and California, CSC merged with the Enterprise Services business...

IT systems integrators and solution providers may be re-reading their HR manuals now that a group of former CSC (now DXC Technology) systems admins has notched a victory in federal court claiming their company willfully misclassified and underpaid its employees. In a decision that could have repercussions for the way IT services firms classify and compensate employees, a federal jury in Connecticut has ruled that Computer Sciences Corp. denied overtime pay to salaried systems administrators nationwide. The New Haven, Conn., jury decided Wednesday that CSC had "wrongly and willfully denied...

When Vernon Carre joined Computer Sciences Corp. in 2009 as a systems administrator, his assumption was it would be a standard, 40-hour-a-week position. It wasn’t until he was months into the job that his manager brought up his required “on-call” week. For one week every two months, he would have to be on call 24 hours a day for the entire week, able to log into the network to address a customer’s problem within 15 minutes. He never received a dollar of overtime pay, he says. “I basically said goodbye to my friends and got all the groceries I needed for the week,” said Carre, now 68, who left...