Apple Employees Sue After “Criminal" Treatment
June 14, 2015
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as posted by the channel"That's according to a recently unsealed e-mail that is part of a lawsuit filed against Apple (AAPL, Tech30) in 2013. The suit, filed in federal court in California, alleges that Apple Store employees were not paid wages for time spent waiting while managers checked the workers' personal bags for stolen iGizmos before they left the store.
In an e-mail sent on April 2, 2012, with the subject line "Fearless Feedback from Apple Retail Specialist," an unnamed employee told Cook that the bag check policies are "both insulting and demeaning to Apple employees."
The employee said Apple Store employees are issued a card with the serial numbers of all their personal Apple devices. Managers ask employees to present their iPhones and cards when they leave, and then they perform a bag check -- often in front of "gawking customers."
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John Iadarola (Think Tank), Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show, and Becca Frucht (Popsugar) hosts of The Young Turks discuss. Tell us in the comment section below what you think of the lawsuit.
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