Apple’s $30 Million Settlement Over Employee Bag Checks Gets Court Approval

Apple’s $30 Million Settlement Over Employee Bag Checks Gets Court Approval
The Apple Inc. logo hanging at the entrance to the Apple store on 5th Avenue in Manhattan, New York, on Oct. 16, 2019. Mike Segar/Reuters
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A federal judge in California has signed off on Apple Inc.’s $30.5 million settlement in a nearly decade-old lawsuit claiming the company shortchanged 15,000 retail workers by not paying them for time spent in security checks after their shifts.

U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco approved the settlement in the 2013 class action on Saturday. The California Supreme Court in 2020 used the case to rule that state law requires employees to be paid when they go through mandatory security screenings.