Apple Pays Millions of Dollars to Employees for Bag Checks

Bloomberg: Apple to pay $ 29.9 million in employee class action lawsuit over checking bags

– for bag checks, she agreed to settle a $ 29.9 million class action lawsuit filed against her in 2013. It is reported by Bloomberg.

It is noted that 14,683 employees of 52 Californian stores of the firm went to court claiming that the company violated state law by not paying for the time people spent checking bags in order to ensure safety.

Apple believes these checks were necessary to ensure employees were not hiding stolen electronic devices in them. In 2015, a judge dismissed the claim, but in 2020 an appeals court ruled that the time spent should be paid.

The plaintiffs' attorneys turned to a federal judge in the United States to approve the settlement. According to it, each of the applicants received $ 1286. The company did not comment on the information.

Earlier in Japan, a train driver sued his employer, the JR West railway company, over a 49-cent fine that was deducted from him for being one minute late for work. that happened through no fault of his. He demanded to pay him 19.3 thousand dollars.

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