Apple to pay 2 million dollar penalties to California retail employees

Hi-Tech Silvia Meyer
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A verdict was given today in what was a long-running class action suit brought against Apple by former employees from its Californian retail stores. The suit, which originally was started in 2011 by four former employees, was expanded by 2014 to have more than 20,000 plaintiffs from retail stores across the state. The class action suit alleged that Apple was guilty of not giving its workers adequate breaks, failing to pay wages in time after people left the company and didn’t provide accurate wage statements. The case eventually when to court this October, and according to an Apple Insider report the jury has ordered Apple to pay out 2 million dollars in restitution.

This settlement comes to about 95 dollars per plaintiff, and 2 million dollar is but a small portion of the 42,4 billion dollar profit Apple made during Q3 alone. In a statement, Apple said that they gave the necessary break in accordance with the California Labor Code for years before the lawsuit was filed. They haven’t yet made a statement about today’s verdict, but the employees who didn’t have a break while advising customers on their iPhone or Ipad choices will see their money after the lawyers get their cut.

From the 1980s to the present, Apple has been plaintiff or defendant in civil actions in the United States and other countries. Some of these actions have determined significant case law for the information technology industry and many have captured the attention of the public and media. Apple’s litigation generally involves intellectual property disputes, but the company has also been a party in lawsuits that include antitrust claims, consumer actions, commercial unfair trade practice suits, defamation claims, and corporate espionage, among other matters.