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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: 3, Informative) by art guerrilla on Wednesday December 14 2016, @07:15PM
had an issue with an employer some years ago; office manager was a nasty piece of work who ran off a number of employees (incl deciding factor for me), with her incessant pettifoggery and WRONG interpretation of fed labor law... since she saw that you reported full time employees as working 8-5, she INSISTED that could ONLY mean you could work EXACTLY from 8 to EXACTLY 5...
there was no reasoning with her (for example, why is it we work overtime after 5?), and i finally had to delve into fed labor law to prove to bosses she was wrong, wrong, wrong... the thing was, the website SPECIFICALLY said that did NOT mean they had to work those exact hours...
(in fact, fucked over a key employee i replaced, who got a ride with wife who had to drop him off at about 6:30-7 am, but -according to idiot office mgr- he could NOT start working until 8, so he sat there for an hour or so... for over 11 years this bullshit went on until i looked into it...)
needless to say, was even nastier to me after that; really don't understand why the bosses thought she was some sort of superhero, when she was definitely a below-average office mgr, in my experience... she did brag on herself a lot...
BUT, the real eye-opener when checking out FLORIDA labor laws, wss the out-and-out barbaric conditions that were allowed undrr state law: work up yo 12 hours w no breaks, no meal breaks, etc... now, unless you are a migrant worker in the fields, companies don't usually treat you like that, BUT THEY CAN, legally...