Most? There are "guys" with bags?
When I ride my bike to work, I wear street clothes, and have a bag to carry my work clothes in.
That's at least one example of why a guy would have a bag.
Most? There are "guys" with bags?
Nobody "needs" a phone, but I bet you and nearly everyone else here carries one around.![]()
There might be precedent cases but your example isn't one of them. This case is more analogous to where someone sues the company for back pay because there was a traffic jam getting out of the company parking lot. Also, anyone know how often this is/was a problem where it seriously slowed people down?
If you don't trust your employees
Why did you hire them?
Let's do some simple math here:
10 minutes (Avg. time to wait for a bag check) x 4 days a week = 40 minutes a week x 4 weeks a month = 160 minutes x 12 months = 1,920 minutes a year or 32 hours of time wasted waiting for bag checks in a year.
For many retail employees, 32 hours is a week of work. I would be pissed if I was missing out on a week of pay for a corporate policy. For those who say big deal it is only a few hundred bucks; take a moment to imagine if you were missing out on a week of pay. The principle is still the same and it is wrong.
Apple should be nailed for this if this is happening. Requiring someone to undergo a bag check that is done off the clock or while cutting into a required break or lunch period is not paying someone while undergoing a requirement of the employer. The arguement that someone could just not bring a bag in is moot. If Apple doesn't have a no bag policy than an employee has the right to bring in a bag. By not allowing an employee to leave the store before undergoing a bag check is keeping someone at work, without pay.
I did the math early on in the thread as well (you were more conservative) to illustrate the point.
Not aimed at you - but this has all been discussed. The only issue is whether or not a company can legally eat into an hourly employee's break time. And also before/after work hours. But I believe the real "complaint" here is about lunch breaks being shortened.
What the heck are you going off about? I see nothing that resembles the subject at hand.
Michael