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I worked at a Ponderosa, one of the cooks would always 'upgrade' his friends meals. They tried to make him a manager!
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Apple Outlines $30M Bag Check Lawsuit Settlement on Legal Website
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I worked at a Burger King, and a group of teens piled all their trash on the table and set it on fire. Nice...
I worked at a Ponderosa, one of the cooks would always 'upgrade' his friends meals. They tried to make him a manager!
Right, they do not qualify. I never said they would or should. I am saying that the security theater of the bag check could have cascading effects that unnecessarily costs employees a lot more of their "unqualified time" and that there are loss intrusive, less time-consuming, and less dehumanizing ways to accomplish the same thing.
If LP, ICS, and regular BOH are doing their jobs properly there is almost zero need for the bag checks.
In fact, the biggest theft cases I have ever heard of involved Genius Admins and ICS (mostly in the Durham store under the same manager) doing shady stuff that would never have been caught by a bag check, but would have been immediately apparent if simple controls were in place to "watch the watchmen" (like tracking no receipt returns on "scrap" items).
That's not "prior restraint".
"Prior restraint" is requiring preapproval before doing something that is otherwise permissible, usually in the context of free speech. For example, requiring movies to be approved by government censors before release. Or requiring authors to submit manuscripts for review before publication.
In most cases, prior restraint isn't legal. National security is often an exception, and people with access to classified material must submit their publications such as autobiographies, for review to ensure classified material does not get published.
She said it. People quite scenes in movies all the time, some without realizing it. Others use 'legalese', and have no clue what it means. *shrug*
So, I got my letter yesterday. I've received other Class Action Notices since I worked there. Every time I get one, it is written out to my nickname and not my legal name. This means that when I get a check, my bank refuses to deposit it. It really makes me wonder if Apple is doing this intentionally. They know my legal name. They used my legal name on my W2 forms. But when a legal case comes up, they provide only nicknames for everyone.
Apple in November settled a long-running lawsuit over employee bag checks, with the Cupertino company agreeing to pay $29.9 million to employees who were subjected to off-the-clock bag searches, and now details about the settlement are available on Apple's website.
California employees first sued Apple in 2013, and in 2015, the case escalated into a class action lawsuit. Employees claimed that Apple subjected them to mandatory bag checks that were "embarrassing and demeaning," with those checks conducted after the end of a shift, causing employees to stay at work an extra 10 to 15 minutes.
Apple said that its bag searches ensured that employees were not hiding stolen electronics in their personal belongings. Apple claimed that employees who did not want to be subjected to bag searches could simply avoid bringing a bag to work, but this argument ultimately did not work for Apple and in 2020, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that Apple needed to pay the employees for the time they had spent in bag searches.
Apple and lawyers for the Apple employees in California reached a settlement last year and in November, asked a judge to approve it. Apple has agreed to pay nearly $30 million, and the more than 14,000 workers involved in the lawsuit will receive payments based on the individual shifts worked. Current and former employees will be receiving emails and letters from Apple with specific information about their potential payment amount.
Details about the Apple Bag Check Class Action Settlement can be found on Apple's legal website, with documents available for California employees subjected to bag checks between July 25, 2009 and August 10, 2015.
The bag search policy has been long discontinued and Apple has not conducted bag searches since 2015. The Final Approval Hearing for the settlement will take place on July 7, 2022.
Article Link: Apple Outlines $30M Bag Check Lawsuit Settlement on Legal Website
I smell a rat!
All you have to do is fill out another signature card for the bank, and they should be good. My mom was able to open a bank account in her nickname. It's not impossible to deal with mix-ups like that.
Yep…Cook has clearly got really, really bad karma!
Just genuinely curious here. Did you actually read the entire article?
And could you be specific, how did Apple ‘scuttle’ the bag check?
This is exactly the problem. It was OK for Apple to check bags. It is not OK to do this off the clock. The employees needed to be on the payroll until they left for home. Apple was holding them back and not paying them for their time.
The law says that as long as you are being told what to do by your boss, you are "at work" and must be paid. In California, if not paid, you are entitled to 3X the money you where not paid.
It was stupid for Apple to fight this because the result was 100% predictable. They would have to issue back pay with penalty and interrest.
I wonder this more and more. Us regular schmoes are all on the same side. None of us should be siding with companies when they exploit us.
Do I buy Apple products? Yes. Do I enjoy them? Yes. Do I call Apple out when they're being cheap bastards? YES because my relationship with them is a business one. They're not my friend and aren't yours either.