Apple’s Denying Pay to Workers for Bag Search Questioned

The California Supreme Court questioned how to balance Apple Inc.'s mandatory, unpaid employee bag and iPhone searches at the end of their shifts with California law requiring workers get paid for all time worked and under the employer’s control.

Apple is the latest California employer to defend its practice of not paying workers for all minutes worked under the state’s employee-protective wage orders. In the case of Starbucks, the court held that all time off the clock and still under an employer’s control is compensable. Prison workers got a split decision in July with the court holding employees ...