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My Company Requires 20-30 Minutes Of Unpaid Work Logging Into My Systems Every Morning. Can I Sue Them?

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I live in Location: Florida and my local office is located in the same state, I work remote as an insurance agent for a 3rd Party company.

I get penalized if I dont do unpaid labor for my company.

Our time inbetween clocking into our systems and when we log in to take our first call is tracked as gap time. We get penalized for more than 8 minutes of gap time.

It takes between 20-30minutes to log in to my system.

From turning on my computer: 5 minutes

Logging into my computer: 5-10 minutes

Checking my messages:5 minutes

Logging into my 2nd software program:5-10 minutes

Pulling up KC articles for use at beginning of day: 5 minutes.

I get penalized for gap time and not checking messages if I don't do all this in advance before clocking into my shift.

The official company policy is that I should be clocked in as im using the computer, but I get penalized if I dont do all this in advance.

The only way to is to dedicate 20-30 minutes when first waking up in the morning just to get everything ready to go before I clock in and start getting paid.

Is there any legal action i can take for this?

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