CARIENE CADENA; ANDREW GONZALES, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CUSTOMER CONNEXX LLC; JANONE, INC.; DOES, 1 through 50, inclusive, Defendants-Appellees., 51 F.4th 831

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HOLDINGS: [1]-Because employees could not perform their principal duties, receiving customer calls and scheduling, without a functional computer, booting up their computers at the beginning of their shifts was integral and indispensable to employees' duties and was a principal activity under 29 U.S.C.S. § 254(a) and therefore compensable under the FLSA. Because clocking in to the timekeeping program occurred after booting up the computer, the first principal activity of the day, it was compensable; [2]-Not all activities an employer requires as a part of an employee's duties are compensable, but when the required activity bears such a close relationship to the employees' principal duties that employees cannot eliminate the required activity and still perform their principal duties, the activity is compensable.