The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco has ordered Apple, Inc. to pay workers for time they spend waiting for and undergoing “exit searches” after their shifts ended for the past decade.
Apple is the most valuable company in the world.
Yet Apple required its workers to undergo mandatory exit searches at the end of their shift after they signed out. In other words, Apple required the workers to clock out prior to the exit search and then refused to compensate them for the time they spent undergoing the exit search, which was estimated at from five minutes up to to 45 minutes.
A three-judge appellate panel Wednesday reinstated the case, which was dismissed in 2015, and granted the plaintiffs’ motion to rule in their favor. The panel ordered the lower court to determine the remedy to be afforded to individual class members.
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