After years of fighting it out in court, Apple Store employees in California will finally get paid for the time the company spent checking their bags for possible stolen products while they were off the clock. The payout: roughly $30 million.
According to court documents filed in the Northern District of California on Friday, and reported by Bloomberg, a total of 14,683 current and former Apple Store employees who worked for the company from July of 2009 to December of 2015 could receive a part of the settlement, which must be approved by the district judge. The class action lawsuit covers the company’s 52 stores in California was filed in 2013 by two Apple Store employees.
