Two years after Apple Store employees brought a class-action suit against their employer over its practice of frisking workers for pilfered gadgets when they left for breaks or at the end of a shift, a judge has sided with the Cupertino tech giant s highly-paid legal pit bulls.
The message to employees from US District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco this past weekend was blunt: If you don t your want bag searched at work, don t bring your bag to work.
An elegantly simple idea. Kind of like the iPhone.
Alsup tossed out the lawsuit that had been brought by store employees Amanda (that s not a typo) Frlekin and Dean Pelle on July 25, 2013.
Going after the biggest and most valuable company on the face of the planet, of course, is not without its risks, as the employees found out.
But then again, there s the trade-off: you work for the company of your dreams, surrounded all day by products you have salivated over since you were practically in diapers, and in return, you don t get to bring your backpack to work.
As Hizzoner might have said, deal with it!
In July this year, the lawsuit was granted class-action status in Alsup – thereby flinging it open to up to 12,000 past and present workers in Apple s 52 stores across California.
As The Register points out, the judge was not swayed by the plaintiffs claim that Apple s policy was demeaning and embarrassing and made them feel like they were being treated as criminals.
He added: Rather than prohibiting employees from bringing bags and personal Apple devices into the store altogether, Apple took a milder approach to theft prevention and offered its employees the option to bring bags and personal Apple devices into a store subject to the condition that such items must be searched when the[y] leave the store.
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