Adam Kos Can you imagine filing a lawsuit against your employer for any reason? If you were in America and your employer was Apple, then maybe yes. The company's employees probably found out that they could make a lot of money this way. On the contrary, even Apple is not particularly picky in its behavior.
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30 million dollars it will cost Apple to compensate its employees who it automatically assumed were stealing. They were regularly subjected to searches of their personal belongings, which often delayed them even 45 minutes beyond their working hours, but Apple did not reimburse them (regardless of the fact that another person rummaged through their personal belongings). That lawsuit was filed in 2013, and it wasn't until two years later that Apple dropped the search of private items. At the same time, the lawsuit was also dismissed by the court. Of course, there was an appeal and only now also a final verdict. 29,9 million dollars will be divided among 12 thousand employees.
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Vratislav Holub The case of Ashley Gjovik
Apple employee Ashley Gjovik, who spoke publicly about problems in the workplace, was duly rewarded for it, i.e. fired. However, not for his opinions, but because of the alleged leak of confidential information. Gjovik details a series of disturbing allegations, some of which were recorded on her website. She mentions that she was subjected to sexism, harassment, bullying and retaliation by managers and colleagues. However, it all started with her raising concerns about possible contamination of her office with hazardous waste and filing a workers' compensation claim, which allegedly prompted further retaliation from managers – a forced leave that led to her eventual departure from the company without official explanation. And the lawsuit is already on the table.
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Ashley Gjovik's case also comes amid growing criticism of Apple from employees who feel the tech giant is not doing enough to address allegations of harassment, sexism, racism, unfairness and other workplace issues. A group of employees thus founded the organization AppleToo. Although she has not directly sued Apple yet, its creation certainly does not indicate that Apple is the company of dreams that you really want to work for. On the outside, it proclaims how welcoming it is to different communities and minorities, but when you are "inside", the situation is clearly different.
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Monitoring private messages
At the end of 2019, former employee Gerard Williams accused Apple of illegal gathering of his private messages so that Apple could, in turn, press charges against him for breach of contract by starting a company that made server chips. Williams led the design of all the chips that power Apple's mobile devices and left the company after nine years at the company. He got an investor who poured 53 million dollars into his start-up Nuvia. However, Apple sued him, saying the intellectual property agreement prevented him from planning or engaging in any business activities that would compete with the company. In the lawsuit, Apple also claims that Williams' work around Nuvia was competitive with Apple because he recruited "numerous Apple engineers" away from the company. But how did Apple get this information? Supposedly by monitoring private messages. Thus, the lawsuit replaced the lawsuit, and we do not yet know their outcome.
And how exactly did you come up with the phrase "apparently it's different inside Apple"? Just because someone files a lawsuit? In America, I can literally sue god for not doing as well as I wanted in my prayers. From this it is quite difficult to make out that something is, or vice versa, is not. And even if this trial turns out somehow, it cannot be deduced from it, because it is only about the battle of lawyers. Justice rarely has anything to do with it. I understand that this is more of a tabloid than a serious magazine, but still.