Search for employees to search for baggage, Apple pays the price: pay 200 million yuan!

It sounds normal to get a card from get off work. But, can you accept your bag from work? Apple's retail shop staff applied for collective lawsuits because they could not accept the company's search.

According to the interface news comprehensive Bloomberg and the business inside story reported on August 16, Apple will pay California employees $ 30.5 million (about 207 million yuan) compensation to solve their The claim.

The plaintiff said that Apple did not compensate the store employees to be searched for the time of the handbag and iPhone at get off work. For some employees, they often wait for a few minutes or even longer after checkout, which is equivalent to about 1,500 US dollars per year.

This collective lawsuit covers 14,683 California employees, with an average of $ 1328 (about 9,000 yuan) compensation per employee. After being filed a lawsuit, Apple no longer searched for employees before get off work.

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Apple employee: search bag is humiliated

CCTV previously reported that the cause of this lawsuit was that Apple searched the bags carried by employees in 52 specialty stores in California, USA. According to the data, as early as 2013, some employees believed that Apple should pay overtime fees to employees because of the delayed time for search inspections, and filed a lawsuit.

Some plaintiffs pointed out that each time the sales staff leave the store, it also includes the dining rest time, and they need to accept "scanning" or search for inspection.

According to international online reports, Apple employees have sent a complaint email to the boss Tim Cook, accusing Apple retail stores in treating employees like "criminals."

These emails were part of the testimony in 2013, when the judge ordered to keep these materials confidential.

At least two employees of Apple retail stores directly complained to Apple CEO Cook, saying that the company's policy of searching for retail staff is not only embarrassing but also humiliating. One of the employees sent an email to Cook in 2012 that the retail store manager "was asked to treat the company's" valuable "employees as criminals."

Lawyer: The company's search for employees is illegal

According to Yangguang.com, companies are searching for employees. This method is generally to prevent employees from leaving sheep. Some media have previously disclosed that some toilet paper companies, when they get off work every day, have to accept the search bag inspection of the staff at the door of the company, or check the trunk of the motorcycle, or even search.

CCTV previously reported that this approach is not uncommon in the hotel industry. A hotel worker interviewed by the reporter said that the hotel where he was located had such a policy due to the loss of items.

Hao Junbo, a senior lawyer, said: Enterprises search for employees, it should be said that I think it is illegal in almost every country. Is it reasonable? It has a moral standard. With his own privacy, let alone his employee, even if ordinary people have the right to search for his bag except for law enforcement agencies.

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