Apple store workers should be paid for time waiting to be searched, court rules
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Re: Apple store workers should be paid for time waiting to be searched, court rules
#2Good.
If the company makes you do something, it’s work.
Re: Apple store workers should be paid for time waiting to be searched, court rules
#3Is this common in the US? (retail workers being searched)
Re: Apple store workers should be paid for time waiting to be searched, court rules
#4Omg, I still can't believe that was in any doubt.
If you are required to be at work, then you should be paid for that time. Just because you aren't "working" does change that the business is requiring you to be there.
If nothing else this should push them to make leaving work not take 20-45 minutes.
WTF. How does anyone think it's acceptable to [funcitonally] detain people.
Re: Apple store workers should be paid for time waiting to be searched, court rules
#5Is this common in the US? (retail workers being searched)
Yeah - especially if there are products with a small form factor and high resale[1] value.
Is not paying employees for time they're required to be present also common? Yes. More or less every store I am aware of.
[1. edit, typo, I meant resale here, not retail]
Re: Apple store workers should be paid for time waiting to be searched, court rules
#6Seriously?!? When I worked at Apple Retail it took all of 10 seconds for the security search. This was at one of the busiest stores in the nation and during the booming period of the iPhone 3/4.
EDIT: Y'all are completely smokin me with these downvotes. I am not against this decision, I am just surprised that the issue grew to be this severe.
Re: Apple store workers should be paid for time waiting to be searched, court rules
#7Note this is in California. At the US, level, 5 years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that Amazon did not have to pay its workers for the time spent waiting for screening.
Excerpt from the NY Times article about that decision:
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled unanimously that a temp agency was not required to pay workers at Amazon warehouses for the time they spent waiting to go through a security screening at the end of the day. The workers say the process, meant to prevent theft, can take as long as 25 minutes.
NY Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/10/business/supreme-court-ru...
Non-paywalled version of above article http://archive.is/Az21a
EDIT: Added excerpt from the article about the US Supreme Court decision.
Re: Apple store workers should be paid for time waiting to be searched, court rules
#8Is this common in the US? (retail workers being searched)
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Re: Apple store workers should be paid for time waiting to be searched, court rules
#9This is horrible. They weren’t working. They were just being effectively imprisoned with the threat of losing their jobs.
They shouldn’t be paid for that.
/s
Re: Apple store workers should be paid for time waiting to be searched, court rules
#10Omg, I still can't believe that was in any doubt. If you are required to be at work, then you should be paid for that time. Just because you aren't "working" does change that the business is requiring you to be there. If nothing else this should push them to make leaving work not take 20- 45 minutes. WTF. How does anyone think it's acceptable to [funcitonally] detain people.
Apple, one of the richest companies in the world:
- thinks they're above the law
- is cheapskate that doesn't want to pay it's lowest level workers equitably
*while constantly virtue-signaling about equality and the environment.