A federal district court in Arizona denied in part, a mail order specialty pharmacy employee’s motion for preliminary certification of a proposed Fair Labor Standards Act collective action. She alleged that she and other employees were regularly scheduled to work 40 hours per week but weren’t compensated for additional time spent turning on their computers and opening programs before their shifts or for turning computers off after shifts. The court found that the potential FLSA collective was limited to opt-in plaintiffs employed by the defendants in Arizona and the portion requesting certification of an Arizona class remained pending.

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