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Labor/Employment

Oct. 23, 2015

Apple chooses to fight bag check suit with fresh legal argument

Apple is seeking summary judgment, arguing it's not liable for bag check screenings because workers bring their own bags on their own volition.

By Matthew Blake
Daily Journal Staff Writer

Apple Inc.'s defense is thinking different about a class action over the company not paying employees for time spent waiting to get their bag checked. While other California defendants - including Urban Outfitters Inc. on Tuesday - have settled the rare lawsuit over time workers wait without pay to get their bags security screened, Cupertino-based Apple has filed a summary judgment motion to kill a ...

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