June 02, 2021
Bag search claims can put a lot of money on the line, but there are other off-the-clock tasks that present a question about whether the employer has to pay up. Here, Law360 reviews cases where a key question is whether workers’ time is compensable.
October 29, 2020
The Ninth Circuit on Thursday amended a September ruling in favor of Apple retail store workers who say they should be paid for time spent waiting for end-of-shift bag searches, giving Apple a chance to argue to the district court that the time was too trivial to merit pay.
September 18, 2020
Apple has asked a Ninth Circuit panel to reconsider part of its ruling that the tech giant must pay its retail workers for time they spend having their bags searched at the end of their shifts, claiming the judges made a mistake by saying it could not rely on one of its defenses against the class action.
September 02, 2020
Apple must pay its retail store workers for the time they spend waiting for their bags and personal belongings to be screened at the end of their workday, the Ninth Circuit said Wednesday in a ruling that aligned itself with the California Supreme Court.
January 01, 2018
California attorneys in 2018 will be closely watching big-ticket cases in the employment and intellectual property areas, including a $400 million design patent trial between Samsung and Apple, another Apple case that will test whether employees must be compensated for time spent in bag checks, and a high-profile fight over the rights of artists to exclusively control public performances of their pre-1972 song recordings. Here, Law360 looks at five major cases attorneys in California and elsewhere will be following closely.
August 16, 2017
A Ninth Circuit panel on Wednesday asked the California Supreme Court to weigh in on whether Apple Inc. must pay a certified class of store employees for time spent checking their personal bags, noting that several similar cases are pending in the state and federal courts.
July 11, 2017
A Ninth Circuit judge said Tuesday that the California Supreme Court should weigh in on whether Apple must pay a certified class of store employees for time spent checking their personal bags, remarking that the issue comes up a lot and "it would be prudent to ask the state court to interpret state law."
June 28, 2016
Apple employees whose bid for overtime pay for time spent undergoing after-work security checks was rebuffed by a California federal court told the Ninth Circuit on Monday that the district court misinterpreted and misapplied both prongs of the state's definition of work.