Apple employee labor law violation class action suit starts Tuesday in CA
A class action suit filed by current and former Apple employees over nine years -- numbering over 20,000 class members -- starts on Tuesday.
The suit, called "Felczer vs. Apple, Inc" will commence at 9 a.m pacific time in Judge Eddie C. Sturgeon's court. The proposed class includes every Apple employee at retail and in other venues with employment dates between Dec. 16, 2007 and Oct. 18, 2016.
Apple was first accused of violating California's labor laws in 2011 by four employees who claim the company did not grant required break time, meal time or issue paychecks on a timely basis. Apple's attempts to scuttle the trial since filing have met with failure.
"The class size continued to grow as the case continued on and time passed due to employee turn over," said attorney for the plaintiffs Tyler Belong in July 2014. "It is now over 20,000."
Counsel is seeking for damages and restitution to all plaintiffs from unlawful business practices as pursuant to ten California Labor Code sections. As usual, interest accrued and applicable attorneys' fees are also being sought.
The suit, called "Felczer vs. Apple, Inc" will commence at 9 a.m pacific time in Judge Eddie C. Sturgeon's court. The proposed class includes every Apple employee at retail and in other venues with employment dates between Dec. 16, 2007 and Oct. 18, 2016.
Apple was first accused of violating California's labor laws in 2011 by four employees who claim the company did not grant required break time, meal time or issue paychecks on a timely basis. Apple's attempts to scuttle the trial since filing have met with failure.
"The class size continued to grow as the case continued on and time passed due to employee turn over," said attorney for the plaintiffs Tyler Belong in July 2014. "It is now over 20,000."
Counsel is seeking for damages and restitution to all plaintiffs from unlawful business practices as pursuant to ten California Labor Code sections. As usual, interest accrued and applicable attorneys' fees are also being sought.
Apple California Labor Code Class Action Suit - Amended Complaint 4 by Mikey Campbell on Scribd
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Okay I never worked retail or fast food, since I always said I would kill a customer if they treated me the way most people treat people who are trying to help them especially ones who are making your food.
However, these people need to get over these stupid thing, really if they think they got it bad working in a mall with heating and air condition and nice clear work environment I have a few jobs for them to try on for size for a day. just a day, I bet they would turn and run home to mommy screaming. These people should give Wal-Mart a try before they complain about Apple pay them a good wags just to stand around any answer questions and process one order.
But having said that, I can understand nasty store managers treating employees badly and not giving lunch breaks, etc., but I can't understand how employees would get paid late. Isn't there some giant automated system to handle payroll? Unless the managers didn't submit hours into the system. (I once got fired for NOT taking lunch.)
And unless they made you a "manager", in which case you would be "exempt" from overtime (and is only legit if you have people reporting to you), your company operated illegally. No one should have to work under those circumstances. Just because you sucked it up doesn't mean that Apple employees should. Having said that, Apple can still be wrong and the lawyers can still wind up with most of the money.
Just because conditions in the 3rd world for workers is worse than the U.S. doesn't mean that U.S. workers should permit themselves to be screwed. It's not like the retail workers make very much money. If you're not going to pay well, then a company needs to treat the workers well and not violate the rules on breaks, lunch and getting paid on time. Personally, I never take breaks and if I'm busy, I'll skip lunch, but I get paid well. As I posted elsewhere, years ago I was in a retail unionized job and I actually got fired for NOT taking lunch, which I did because we were so busy. I knew I wasn't getting paid for the hour. But that idiot company is long out of business.
Some years ago, I accepted a fixed rate contractual deal in which I was paid for 22 days a month at 8 hours a day. I wound up putting in far more hours than that. At the end of the contract year, I told them that I couldn't accept that deal anymore and I was going to bill by the hour. And they accepted that because they knew they needed me. Unfortunately, since there's plenty of retail workers, Apple retail workers don't have a lot of negotiating power. I don't generally like unions, but maybe Apple workers should organize.
You were obviously on salary or just a fool to work all that extra time.