Kansas City-based Cerner Corp. has agreed to pay nearly $2 million after a federal evaluation accused the healthcare IT company of discriminatory hiring practices against Black and Asian job applicants. A routine federal compliance evaluation from the U.S. Department of Labor found that Cerner “systematically” discriminated against qualified Black and Asian applicants who applied to Cerner’s five facilities across Missouri and Kansas, according to the release. The department drew particular attention to the Cerner Oaks and Cerner Innovations campuses in Kansas City, Missouri, and the Cerner Corp. and Cerner Continuous Campus North Tower in Kansas City, Kansas. The labor department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs has since entered into a “multi-establishment conciliation agreement” with Cerner, in which Cerner agreed to pay $1.86 million in back pay and interest to 1,870 people who applied for jobs across several positions. Cerner previously denied the allegatio...