Bloomberg:
Apple Inc. persuaded a judge to throw out a lawsuit by employees of the company’s retail stores in California seeking back pay for time spent in “demoralizing” security searches when they left work for the day.
The ruling by a San Francisco federal judge Saturday releases the company from having to compensate as many 12,400 former and current employees from 52 stores throughout the state a few dollars a day for time spent over a six-year period having their bags and Apple devices searched at meal breaks and after their shifts.
I’m sure this is very disappointing to the workers. Having worked in this kind of environment, it is not a fun thing to have to do, especially during a rush. You can waste a lot of time waiting for a security droid to check bags. But the writing was on the wall last year when the Supreme Court ruled against Amazon employees in a similar case.
I agree with Apple in this case. These employees should see what a DoD employee or anyone else working in a high security environment has to go through to get to their place of work.
Nonsense.
True force capitalism is shameful regardless of the company that perpetrates it. Employees should be compensated for this.
This is node more step in the commoditization of workers.
I think this was a bad ruling. Apple — nobody — should have the right to keep people at work beyond their shift without compensation. If my shift is over and you stop paying me, I have the right to leave. You don’t have the right to detain me.
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