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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 14 2016, @07:59PM
Discussing pay has been upheld by SCOTUS as a first amendment right. As such you cannot sign it away in a contract that will be upheld by the courts. Furthermore, discussing pay is considered a necessary part of organizing labor (unionizing) and punishing employees for discussing pay is a labor violation (those laws have teeth). Your HR rep will tell you otherwise because keeping wages down is part of their job.
(Score: 2) by tynin on Thursday December 15 2016, @02:03PM
Can you point to the case SCOTUS decided it was a first amendment right? I'd like to print out some of the finer points of the decision and tape them to the office doors of every one in my management chain. They just recently reminded all of us how it was a fire-able offense.