On December 31, the media 9To5Mac reported that Apple had previously required Apple Store employees to undergo backpack searches after work. Employees believed that the 10 to 15 minutes occupied by the search backpack were free of charge, so they took Apple to court. Today, Apple's offer to pay employees $29.9 million (about 190 million yuan) has been approved by the court, and each employee can receive an average of about 7,600 yuan in compensation.
The lawsuit dates back to 2013, when a group of retail store employees sued Apple for paying for the time spent inspecting employees' backpacks and safety devices. The case has passed the Ninth Circuit and the California Supreme Court.
In the Supreme Court ruling, Apple argued that employees could have left devices such as mobile phones in their homes to avoid being searched. But the court rejected that claim and criticized Apple, with judges saying apple portrayed the iPhone as an integral part of its customers' lives in advertising campaigns, but required its employees to keep their phones at home, contradictory arguments.
Eventually, Apple stopped backpack searches in 2015 and offered to pay employees $30 million this year to settle the case. Now, the solution has finally been approved by the court, and the nearly eight-year dispute has finally been settled, and 14,683 current and former employees who worked at Apple's 52 Stores in California between July 2009 and December 2015 will be compensated.
In China, in fact, many companies also occupy the situation of employees' off-duty time, some time ago the tea and pleasant things are also boiling over, employees in the company group complained that the monthly salary of three thousand also every day after work meetings, work meetings, occupy a lot of time without any compensation. After the senior leadership finally apologized publicly, the news stopped.
Meetings after work, morning meetings before work, team building on weekends or holidays, etc. These are taking up employees' personal time, but few companies are willing to compensate for it, or even take it for granted.
Although this year, many companies announced the implementation of a system of employees taking weekends off and not working overtime. But the actual situation is not known, and there are very few companies that can do this. It is hoped that in the future, the relevant departments can continue to improve the commuting system so that everyone can enjoy fair treatment.