Apple to pay retail workers $30 million over security bag checks
Apple has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit against the company by paying retail workers some $30 million over time they weren't paid for whilst undergoing security bag checks. From Courthouse News: Apple offered to pay $29.9 million to employees who claimed they were subjected to routine searches of their bags off the clock in a settlement proposal filed in federal court Friday. "This is a significant, non-reversionary settlement reached after nearly eight years of hard-fought litigation," wrote Lee Shalov, plaintiff for the attorney, in the proposed settlement. The settlement would be the largest in a security search case in California and would bring an end to a fairly tumultuous case. The class represents 12,000 current and former Apple employees. California's Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye blasted Apple over claims employees didn't need to bring their iPhones to work, whilst advertising it as an "integrated and integral" part of the lives of everyone else. From the report: Apple makes its employees comply with the bag search policy or face termination. Apple argued throughout the case that the policy is intermittent, only applies to a select group of employees and lasts only seconds. The chief justice also found Apple wielded control over its workers by forcing them to find a manager or security guard before they could leave the store for lunch breaks or shift endings. Workers also had to unzip or open compartments in their bags, follow the commands of bag searchers to move things around in their bags and allow their Apple devices to be removed, inspected and verified during searches. As we have previously reported Apple store employees have confirmed to iMore that Apple's bag checking policies are not a company-wide policy, and is usually left to the discretion of individual stores. |
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