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Apple is paying a $2 million pittance after losing a class action case brought by former Apple Store employees:
A California court has ruled in favor of Apple Store workers who accused the iPhone giant of trampling over their employment rights. It is a bittersweet victory. The trial jury yesterday awarded store staff $2m after Apple was found to have illegally denied them meal and rest breaks, and was late giving departing workers their final paychecks.
The class-action complaint was first filed in 2011 in the California State Court in San Diego by four former employees. It was later expanded to a class of more than 21,000 current and former workers who held jobs at the Apple Store as far back as 2007. Apple had been accused of a half-dozen violations of state labor laws, including California laws forbidding the failure to provide meal and rest breaks, full pay upon termination, and unfair business practices.
Lawsuit (PDF).
(Score: 5, Touché) by Grishnakh on Wednesday December 14 2016, @05:52PM
This is great! It's good to see abusive corporations like this put in their place, and forced to fairly compensate the workers they've mistreated all these years. There's 9 years of abuse here, with horribly egregious offenses including failure to provide full pay upon termination, not to mention forcing workers to forgo meal and rest breaks.
I for one am glad to see that all these 21000 employees will be fairly compensated with a hefty $2,000,000 award. This will give each of them a very generous $95.24 to compensate them for years and years of corporate abuse. After the lawyers take out their fees, this should give each of them enough to afford to eat dinner at a mid-priced restaurant, or maybe pay about 1/3 of their monthly cellphone bill.
It's great to see the justice system making victims whole again and dispensing proper justice.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday December 14 2016, @05:59PM
I just realized that if those 21k employees convince... let's say 2 people on average to stop buying Apple products, it will have a bigger dent on Apple than that 2 mil.
There's also the tiny amount of bad press to factor in. All in all, Apple may have just lost a cool $10 million!
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 14 2016, @06:21PM
Maybe society would be better off if "laborers" weren't such entitled, whining bitches grabbing for as much loot as they can get their grubby, dirty, unwashed hands on.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 14 2016, @06:25PM
Unquestionably society would be better if "companies" weren't such entitled, whining bitches grabbing for as much loot as they can get their grubby, dirty, unwashed hands on.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday December 14 2016, @06:44PM
Companies are bitches, mi amigo!
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