There are some interesting cases going on right now about
whether employees who work in electronic retail stores need to be
paid for the time they spend waiting to get their bags checked when
they clock in and out of their shifts. Currently, these
security checks are "off the clock" but sometimes these
employees are spending 45 minutes a day waiting to get their bags
checked. Should they be getting paid for that time? The
courts are now deciding that question.
One of those employers is Apple, who is currently defending
itself against a class-action case by store workers who say they
were not paid for time spent waiting for Apple security to check
their bags each time they left a store, whether for lunch breaks or
at the end of their shift. Understandable, Apple retail
locations house some pretty expensive and tiny electronics (...not
including the iPhone 6+ which just seems oddly huge).
