Apple to pay retail workers $30 million over security bag checksThe legal battle has been going for some eight years.
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Apple has agreed to pay its workers some $29.9 million over bag checks.
Retail employees filed a class-action lawsuit in 2013 over the measures.
Lawyers have asked a judge to approve the settlement.
Apple has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit against the company by paying retail workers some $30 million over time they weren't paid for whilst undergoing security bag checks.
From Courthouse News:
Apple offered to pay $29.9 million to employees who claimed they were subjected to routine searches of their bags off the clock in a settlement proposal filed in federal court Friday.
"This is a significant, non-reversionary settlement reached after nearly eight years of hard-fought litigation," wrote Lee Shalov, plaintiff for the attorney, in the proposed settlement.
Apple was sued by employees in 2013, over claims that workers should be paid for the time they spent waiting to have their bags ...
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Apple to pay retail workers $30 million over security bag checks
