Santa Clara, CAApple workers were subjected to off-the-clock security bag searches from July 2009 until August 2015. It’s hard to imagine working six years for an employer that doesn’t trust its employees. According to the California wage and hour lawsuit, Apple said bag checks were necessary to ensure workers weren't leaving with stolen electronic devices or trade secrets and if you didn’t like it, don’t bring bags or iPhones (!) to work. Employees said the mandatory bag checks were embarrassing and demeaning.
The lawsuit, filed by a group of Apple employees, goes back to 2013. By 2015 it had morphed into a class action. Those employees asserted that they should be compensated for the bag search time because they were still under Apple’s control. Apple argued its case successfully in U.S. District Court in 2015 but the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in February 2020 that Apple had violated the California labor law by failing to pay its employees for that five- to twenty-minute bag search before clocking out. The judges ruled that that Apple workers were "clearly under Apple's control while awaiting, and during, the exit searches."
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