Oh it does. Just like it has the no social media posting, no wearing your work shirts outside of work etc.
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Apple Retail Employees File Class Action Lawsuit Over 'Bag Check' Lost Wages
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Oh it does. Just like it has the no social media posting, no wearing your work shirts outside of work etc.
Wrong. No one can "sign away" their rights under the law simply by agreeing to an employment contract. Otherwise, companies could say "our policy is that we pay $2 per hour, regardless of the minimum wage law" and get away with it.
Statute requires that hourly employees be paid for their time. If the company chooses to have them stand in line for a bag check, they can do that. They just have to pay for it.
You can if anything in those terms is deemed illegal. And quite often, those things are decided retrospectively, because laws surrounding these things can, and do, change.
Hmmm Does anyone know if Employees are allowed to wear their uniforms outside of work? Does Apple launder their shirts? Are employees expected to just carry their shirts over their shoulders to and from work.
Honest questions...
Wow! No. You have it backwards. Apple is required to pay you for every minute of your time. Just like you are required to be at work for all the time you are on the clock. If you aren't on the clock, you don't have to stay. That is just simple labor law.
This is why you think you are entitled to the world. Nobody is telling you how to spend your time. You can not bring a bag to work and you won't have to spend time doing anything extra. However if you choose to bring a bag, you might spend a few minutes for them to search it. This is purely your choice. Once you realize that and stop blaming a company for your choice you will see
Only those people that bring a bag by their OWN CHOICE KNOWING IT HAS TO BE CHECKED
First, all the negative lawyer comments are only funny until you get your ass in a sling and need one of us.
Second, it can't go back ten years. Statute of Limitations is 6 years. And to the moron that was shocked that there are damages, when you don't get paid, you accrue damages. For example, New York gives you 25% of your lost wages and FLSA give 100%. You could make 225% of what your owed in New York. So damages...yes, there are. Wage and hour violations are serious. The attorneys on this are going to make way more than the class given it is quarter hour issues at best.
Second, it can't go back ten years. Statute of Limitations is 6 years. And to the moron that was shocked that there are damages, when you don't get paid, you accrue damages. For example, New York gives you 25% of your lost wages and FLSA give 100%. You could make 225% of what your owed in New York. So damages...yes, there are. Wage and hour violations are serious. The attorneys on this are going to make way more than the class given it is quarter hour issues at best.
That doesn't help if you need to bring a bag to work with your lunch in it, you store it in your locker with your lunch in the fridge, you'll need to take the bag home with you.
Irrelevant
It's not the search that's the issue. A bag search can take 30 seconds. It's the 15 minutes of them keeping you waiting, while they aren't searching your bag that's the issue here.
Again, since when did a single basic right become "The World"? Apple IS telling you how to spend you're time, they're forcing you to wait on your own time. While your bag isnt even being searched. A search is over very quickly, it's the 15 minutes of waiting around doing nothing that is the issue here. Try and leave without the search, they can't. Apple is keeping them there. Ergo telling them to remain there until searched. Some people will NEED to bring in bags. Even then, that is not the point. Apple searching you if you bring a bag is not the point. Apple keeping you waiting for that period of time before you even get searched is the problem.
Oh my God, it's like talking to a Brick Wall.
Yep. That's the solution. Pay for the things to throw away every day. It's fiscally sound. People on low income jobs should definitely purchase and use disposable items on a regular basis instead of buying on bag and using it to carry everything. Buy disposable cutlery. Disposable coffee cups.
And, again, those with diabetes are unlikely to find your solution covers their needs.
What are you talking about? I don't just have plastig bags lying around the house, certainly not in the amount that I can dispose of everytime I leave work. Do I have to start buying those? Please, I've already mentioned female employee's need tampons throughout the day, are they supposed to put them in with the lunch? You're assuming I am "lazy" while actually in the past I used the pockets of my jacket to put my lunchbags in. But it's around 25 degrees these days so that's kind of not an option. It's got nothing to do with being lazy or entitled.
you get plastic bags for free at the grocery store...
and you could buy probably thousands of paper lunch bags for the price of a backpack
That you are NOT required to bring to work.if you choose to do so then that's on you
wow. People like you are the reason the upper class is expanding - they exploit the working class to continue amassing huge amounts of wealth, one dollar or one cent at a time. You say workers should "get over" themselves and not whine about "every little thing". Believe me, the corporation IS concerned with every little thing, and this policy is due to a calculated decision to maximize profit. So shouldn't you tell the corporation to "get over" itself? Shouldn't the corporation "quit acting like" they are losing considerable profit and just pay what they owe? No? Why is it okay for the corporation to squeeze every cent out of its workers, but its not okay for the workers to ask to be compensated for EVERY SECOND of their time?
The problem with that is during the winter when it's cold and you are FORCED to bring a jacket to work they have to check your jacket on the way out. When its 0 degrees out and snowing you don't have much of a choice on bringing a coat to work.
Not even CLOSE to the same situation. Clocking in on time is your responsibility so that has nothing to do with the companies computers. They are being forced to wait AFTER they clock out... see the difference?
like i have said before, i don't get paid for the time it takes to get through the security gate at my work... why should you get paid for the time it takes you to get through security at your work? We all have to do it, and it's literally maybe a minute or two a day max on most days.... not like you're losing some huge amount of money. On most days it would amount to pennies. You guys act like they are working all day for free.
Us women generally know how many we need. Bring it in a paper bag, use them, trash the bag. Got one extra, shove it in a pocket. Walk past the managers with visible empty hands, totally caught in the security cameras as well.no waiting
The pitfalls of retail.
- minimum wages
- minimum break times
- your time is their time
- forget about a social life
- miss that bus or train because they want to inspect your bags.
It's not just Apple doing this, it's across the board these days. Perhaps if retailers treated their staff with the respect they expect to be treated with by their staff sales would improve.
Just sayin'
- minimum wages
- minimum break times
- your time is their time
- forget about a social life
- miss that bus or train because they want to inspect your bags.
It's not just Apple doing this, it's across the board these days. Perhaps if retailers treated their staff with the respect they expect to be treated with by their staff sales would improve.
Just sayin'
I love his proposition though. It TOTALLY speaks to Apple's desire to be as GREEN as possible
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