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.
Good. If workers are literally waiting around for encrypted drives to unlock and VPNs to connect before they can even clock in, that time is work and it should be paid. The DOL has been clear about this for years, so this isn’t some creative lawsuit, it’s basic labor law being ignored.
Banks love to preach efficiency while handing employees garbage slow images and MFA nightmares that add half an hour to the morning. Either fix the onboarding tech, let people clock in before they finish booting, or pay them for the time. Guess which one costs the bank money now, and which one costs them on a lawsuit later.
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On Reddit, to cost them the money and mental bandwidth.
This is so odd. Less than 1 hr old and 75 lengthy comments. Why??
Thanks for pointing it out.
Bizarre but it’s also correct