Employees are up in arms against companies for not paying them for the time that their Computers take to boot up and shut down. Apparently companies like AT&T, UnitedHealth and Cigna demand starts their logs when an employee is logged into his/her system. According to a National Law Journal article:
Lawyers are noting a new type of lawsuit, in which employees are suing over time spent booting [up] their computers. … During the past year, several companies, including AT&T Inc., UnitedHealth Group Inc. and Cigna Corp., have been hit with lawsuits in which employees claimed that they were not paid for the 15- to 30-minute task of booting their computers at the start of each day and logging out at the end. Add those minutes up over a week, and hourly employees are losing some serious pay, argues plaintiffs’ lawyer Mark Thierman, a Las Vegas solo practitioner who has filed a handful of computer-booting lawsuits in recent years. … [A] management-side attorney… who is defending a half-dozen employers in computer-booting lawsuits… believes that, in most cases, computer booting does not warrant being called work.
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