[Vision2020] Apple Sued by Former Retail Workers for Unpaid Wages

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  July 30, 2013, 1:47 pm Apple Sued by Former Retail Workers for Unpaid
Wages By BRIAN X. CHEN <http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/author/brian-x-chen/>

Apple designs its retail stores to be a seamless shopping experience, where
a customer can pick up a MacBook and be out of the store in minutes. But
some of Apple’s former retail employees say working at the stores was less
than smooth.

Former Apple store employees in New York and Los Angeles have filed a
class-action lawsuit
<http://www.scribd.com/doc/156747491/Apple-Employee-Class-Action>charging
that they were forced to wait in line for 30 minutes a shift for their bags
to be searched for stolen goods. They say that they are not paid for the
time standing in line, which amounts to $1,500 a year. The suit, which was
filed in the Federal District Court in the Northern District of California,
was reported earlier by
GigaOm<http://gigaom.com/2013/07/29/apple-workers-file-lawsuit-for-lost-wages-due-to-bag-searches/>
.

Apple declined to comment. “We don’t comment on pending litigation,” said
Amy Bessette, an Apple spokeswoman. But the company is not alone with this
type of lawsuit in the retail business. Forever 21, the clothing retailer,
was sued last year<http://nymag.com/thecut/2012/01/forever-21-gets-sued-by-its-own-employees.html>by
its employees who said they were kept at stores during lunch breaks so
their bags could be searched.

Apple’s retail stores take in more money per square foot than any other
United States retailer. But employees in Apple’s retail stores enjoy little
of that wealth<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/24/business/apple-store-workers-loyal-but-short-on-pay.html>,
the majority of them earning about $25,000 a year.


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