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law.com - 11/20/2008

Is booting up a computer work, or a work break?

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NLJ Home > News EMPLOYMENT LAW Is booting up a computer work, or a work break? More companies fending off suits on the issue. It seems just about anything in the workplace can find its way into wage-and-hour litigation. Case in point: Lawyers are noting a new type of lawsuit, in which employees ...

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youtube.com - 11/20/2008

BeagleBoard booting custom Android (video)

— youtube.com — a video showing Android booting on Beagle board , captured on my mobile phone. (more) BeagleBoard booting custom Android (video)

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lifehacker.com - 11/20/2008

Employees Sue to be Paid for Time Spent Booting Up [Law]

— lifehacker.com — If you're manager tracks your time based on when you log in and out of your machine at work, then are you missing out on pay for the time you're waiting for your machine to boot up and shut down?... (more) Employees Sue to be Paid for Time Spent Booting Up [Law]

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Employees Sue Over Half-Hour Boot Times
Wired: Gadget Lab — ... a machine to take that long to get going? Maybe these people are working on some kind of mechanical Babbage engines and need to coax the cogs into meshing every morning. We doubt it. If their computers are really that far gone, we can think of just one thing -- they've been visiting some very dodgy sites during work hours and gotten infected with all kinds of malware. Which, in turn, means that they have been surfing porn on work time, and should shut up about a few nickels. Is booting up a computer work, or a work break? [NLJ via Lifehacker] ...

Employees Filing Suit Over Windows Vista Boot Times
ChannelWeb Complete Feed — ... times have put the much maligned operating system in the middle of another legal donnybrook. According to a report this week in the ...

Employees Filing Suit Over Windows Vista Boot Times
The Channel Wire — ... times have put the much maligned operating system in the middle of another legal donnybrook. According to a report this week in the ...

Should you be paid for the time it takes to boot your computer?
Download Squad — ... Now here's the big question of the day - if this is your work computer we're talking about, should you be paid for that time? Apparently employees at seveal companies including AT7T and Cigna have filed lawsuits alleging that they weren't paid for the time it took to turn their computers on and off each day, a process which they claim takes 15 to 30 minutes. ...

Companies Sued For Not Paying For Time Spent Booting Up A Computer
Techdirt — ... points us to the fascinating news that there is a growing number of lawsuits from hourly employees suing employers for not paying them for the time they sit waiting for their computers to boot up in the morning. The article also mentions time waiting for a computer to shut down, but I'm not sure how that should matter. Once you start that process, can't you just leave? I can certainly sympathize that the bootup process can take quite some time -- especially on older Windows machines, but this hardly seems like lawsuit material. As some have pointed out, for ...