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posted by Fnord666 on Friday February 14 2020, @06:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the who-needs-bags? dept.

Apple must pay store employees for bag-search time, court rules

Apple must pay its retail store employees for the time they spend waiting for mandatory bag searches at the end of their shifts, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The decision is retroactive, but it wasn't immediately clear how much Apple would have to pay.

The decision stems from a class-action lawsuit filed in 2013 by two former workers from Apple stores in New York and Los Angeles that claimed employees at physical locations were required to stand in lines up to 30 minutes long every day for store managers to check their bags to ensure they weren't smuggling home stolen goods. Failure to comply can lead to the employee's termination.

"Under the circumstances of this case and the realities of ordinary, 21st century life, we find farfetched and untenable Apple's claim that its bag-search policy can be justified as providing a benefit to its employees," Supreme Court Judge Tani Cantil-Sakauye wrote in the decision (PDF).

[...] "Given that Apple requires its employees to wear Apple-branded apparel while working but directs them to remove or cover up such attire while outside the Apple store, it is reasonable to assume that some employees will carry their work uniform or a change of clothes in a bag in order to comply with Apple's compulsory dress code policy," she wrote.

[...] "Apple may tailor its bag-search policy as narrowly or broadly as it desires and may minimize the time required for exit searches," Cantil-Sakauye wrote. "But it must compensate those employees to whom the policy applies for the time spent waiting for and undergoing these searches."

Apple didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.


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  • (Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 15 2020, @04:50AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 15 2020, @04:50AM (#958424)

    I can understand WalMart doing this...I hear way too much talk of how easy it is to rip off WalMart.

    I sure can't blame em for trying to stop this. It's almost like a modern rerun of that old three stooges and their electrical goods store.

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  • (Score: 2, Offtopic) by barbara hudson on Saturday February 15 2020, @05:00AM

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Saturday February 15 2020, @05:00AM (#958426) Journal
    Nobody else does it - must be the fault of having shitty upper management. Too cheap to hire or train mystery shoppers. Most theft is aided by or committed by employees, not customers. Letting employees know that there are mystery shoppers among the real clients keeps them at least partly in check. Treating your workers with a bit of respect doesn't hurt either.
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