9th Circuit:  Call Center Principal Activities Include Turning Computers On, Off

Mealey's (October 27, 2022, 9:19 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel reversed summary judgment for a Las Vegas call center accused of failing to pay workers for the time they spend turning on and off their computers, finding that because calls can’t be answered without the computers, the activity of turning them on and off is “indispensable” to their work and is a “principal activity” under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)....