Apple Defeats Employees In A Legal Battle For Bag-Search Lawsuit

Apple does not need to compensate for their time spent on bag searches,

Apple has won a legal battle. A federal judge in San Francisco has rejected a class action lawsuit filed by the smartphone maker’s retail employees against bag searching practices at the organization’s stores in California. The judgment given on Saturday by Federal District Court’s judge William Alsup came in a petition in which workers litigated to be compensated for time consumed by the Cupertino-based organization to conduct a search of their baggage to ensure that they did not steal any stock.

Apple news affirmed that at least two of its retail store employees made a complaint directly to the organization’s CEO Tim Cook that its policy of keeping a check on retail workers’ bags as a safety precautionary measure was distressing and disrespectful, according to the filed complaint publicized previously in the lawsuit. Lee Shalov, an advocate representing the complainants, stated they were disappointed by the ruling and aim to look at all alternatives, including a likely appeal.

An Apple’s official refused to share his or her views regarding the issue. The complainants in the bag searching case include more than 12,000 former and current workers at more than 50 Apple distribution centers in California, according to an earlier ruling.

Petitions from within the technology giant’s workers are infrequent. Apple news today exclaimed that the named complainants, Dean Pelle and Amanda Frenklin, stated that the bag searches, aimed to discourage the stealing practice, were carried out when salespersons came out of the store, inclusive of meal breaks.

Apple Breaking News revealed that in his judgment, Judge Alsup stated Apple employees could opt not to bring their baggage to the workplace, and therefore would not suffer from the delays from a search. No Apple worker filed legal documents asserting a special requirement to bring baggage, the judge wrote.

Judge Alsup wrote, “Rather than prohibiting employees from bringing bags and personal Apple devices into the store altogether, Apple took a milder approach to theft prevention and offered its employees the option to bring bags and personal Apple devices into a store subject to the condition that such items must be searched when they leave the store.”

Judge Alsup rules that the company does not need to recompense its more than 12,000 former and current retail workers for the time spent to wait for baggage searched not only when their shift end but also when they went for breaks.

It could be assumed that the Federal Court’s ruling would demoralize the enterprise’s workforce and set precedence for the future.