If you are quite keen or just an Apple fan, it will not escape you that Apple has been facing one lawsuit after another. One such lawsuit is the recently decided case filed by Apple's retail employees against the company.
The class action lawsuit involves seeking back pay for time that the employees spent waiting in line daily for the mandatory bag searches conducted each time they went on breaks and at the end of their shifts. It also covers six year period they have done so.
The lawsuit was first filed in 2013 by two former workers from the Apple stores in New York and Los Angeles. Both employees stated that they were required to stand in line for about 30 minutes every day for their store managers to check their bags and make sure no goods had been stolen.
Because of this, the employees claim they lost a lot of time that could have been used in working, totalling the loss to about 1,500 USD every year. The lawsuit then attained its class action status in July.
This Saturday the class lawsuit was officially dismissed in San Francisco by US District Court Judge William Alsup. According to what Alsup has written in his ruling, the employees had the choice to just not bring a bag to work which will enable them to avoid the search process.
Alsup also added that Apple had, in this case, taken a milder approach to theft prevention by offering their employees the choice whether to bring their bags and personal devices into the store, in exchange for having to undergo the search process. This is rather better than prohibiting their employees to bring them to the store.
The decision has freed Apple from the responsibility to compensate a total of 12,000 of their current and former employees within their 52 stores located at California. It also came after the US Supreme Court ruled an almost similar case wherein the accused is Amazon, also ruled that they do not need to pay their employees for the time spent on security check lines.
Meanwhile both Apple and the complainants remained silent and haven't given any statements regarding the ruling as of today.
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