Ondrej Holzman The court in San Francisco refused lawsuit more than 12,000 employees at Apple Stores across California who sought compensation from Apple for "humiliating" personal searches upon leaving their jobs.
Apple won't have to pay anything at all to roughly 12 employees after Judge William Alsup's latest decision. People from a total of 400 California Apple Stores they asked a few dollars for every day they had to stay a few minutes overtime for the last six years because their bags were searched when they left for lunch and went home.
According to an expert who addressed magazine Bloomberg, Apple could have paid up to $60 million plus fines if defeated, but according to Judge Alsup, each employee could have avoided those checks by not bringing any bags or backpacks to work.
Already last year, the US Supreme Court ruled in the case of Amazon and its warehouse workers that employees do not have a federal right to be reimbursed for such after-hours security searches, and now Apple employees have also failed within the state of California. However, their lawyers have already said they are disappointed by the result and are considering further action, including an appeal.
