Imagine that you’re an Apple retail store employee anticipating your lunch break. You’ve had a long day of slanging iPods and are ready for a bite to eat. You punch out, grab your keys, walk ou… oh, and one more thing. You can’t leave until the store manager check your bags.
That’s the picture painted by a lawsuit filed by two former Apple employees in Northern California. According to the suit, store employees were forced to wait for 5-15 unpaid minutes to have their bags and purses inspected before they left the store. If an employee chose to leave the store for lunch, that means they had to forfeit 30 unpaid minutes of their time each shift.
The lawsuit, which is for unspecified damages and includes thousands of employees dating back more than a decade, cites a violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act and other state labor laws.
Looks like Apple really takes commanding your attention to heart.
[Via gigaom.com]
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