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Apple must pay store employees for bag-search time, court rules – Source CNET Tech

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Apple store employees deserve to be paid for time spent waiting for mandatory bag searches at the end of their shifts, the California Supreme Court rules.


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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 alleged 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…

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