Court orders Apple to pay employees for bag check hours worked
What you need to know
- The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ordered Apple to pay employees for time spent on bag checks.
- Employees were required to clock out before going through the bag check screening process.
- According to the suit, the wait caused up to an hour and a half of unpaid time per week.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that Apple must pay its retail workers for the time spent waiting for bag checks on days they are working a shift.
Reported by AppleInsider, the court reversed an earlier decision that ruled in the company's favor. The new opinion aligns with a previous ruling from the California Supreme Court, which said that employees are due compensation for the time they spend going through screening at work.
According to the original lawsuit, Apple store employees were waiting upwards of an hour and a half per week to get through the screenings. The court ruled that, since these screenings were required and primarily for the company's benefit, employees are eligible for compensation for the time spent going through the process.
The opinion says that "those purported disputed facts are irrelevant to whether time spent by class members waiting for and undergoing exit searches pursuant to the policy is compensable as 'hours worked' under California law."
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