I'm extremely on the side of workers being victims of wage theft, but according to the article the employee was paid an hourly rate of $46, if the rate had been negotiated to be like $42 but they paid the extra minutes spent booting the computer and the total pay worked out the same, would anything be meaningfully different?
I mean, part of the implication here is that people are working more than 8 hours a day, which doesn't seem great, but I'm not sure how I feel about whether or not people should be able to agree to employments that require more than 8 hours a day.