Bank of America sued over not paying workers for PC boot up time in proposed class action lawsuit
Bank of America is facing a proposed class and collective action lawsuit that accuses the company of failing to pay hundreds of hourly workers for time spent booting their computers, logging in, and launching required software before officially starting their shifts.
The complaint, filed by former employee Tava Martin, focuses on a routine familiar to many in the modern workplace: unlocking encrypted drives, signing in through multi-factor authentication, connecting to a VPN, and launching business-critical applications. According to the filing, these tasks could take up to 30 minutes each day and were required before employees could access the company’s timekeeping system to clock in.
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Company I worked for had a similar process, so every morning I opened the email template saved for the very purpose of having my starting time corrected. They did that without fail or complaint, but never changed the system. I guess many people just donated their time to the company.
Bizarre that the computers don’t boot up unattended.
Why? They can't bilk their employees that way, and would cost money to implement.
Ikr. My workstation has a bootup calendar if I wanted it automatic.
they still have to punch-in like prior centuries? the 4 different employers i had last 17 years just require me to type in my time
Well, you see, your prior employers made the UNFORGIVABLE sin of treating employees like adults. They'll be out of business here in 2 seconds because their employees are going to bleed them dry!!!! TIME THEFT!! ~BoFA
bot account above
This is so odd. Less than 1 hr old and 75 lengthy comments. Why??
Thanks for pointing it out.
To establish a history. There's midterms less than a year away. And this place is going to be at least as infested as Reddit.
Reddit will have the consent and cooperation of the admins. Lemmy will have an open API and not many ways to stop it.
Bizarre but it's also correct
I'm with bot on this one.
We need more commie bots to fight the capitalists bots...
On Reddit, to cost them the money and mental bandwidth.