Apple is being accused in a lawsuit filed by an ex-employee of breaching a New York labor law that requires companies to issue weekly paychecks to store workers who do manual labor such as, according to the complaint, “working the sales floor, unboxing products, [emptying] cash registers, and [assisting] customers.”
Raven Ramos, who worked at Apple’s Fifth Ave. store in Manhattan for more than seven years, claims the company paid her every other week, rather than weekly, as required by state law.
Filed Monday as a class action on behalf of other workers, the complaint seeks “well in excess” of $5 million from Apple for delayed compensation payments under a law often invoked in lawsuits against employers.
MacDailyNews Take: One salient question a lawyer representing Apple might want to ask first off: “Is unboxing products and emptying cash registers really ‘manual labor?'”
What was the spirit of the law when created? Who is the law really intended to protect? One might guess it’d be actual manual laborers.
The class action complaint is here.
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Every company in NY state will be confirming this labor law compliance big time…
When did this law go into effect? “Raven Ramos, who worked at Apple’s Fifth Ave. store in Manhattan for more than seven years, claims the company paid her every other week”, so it has been seven years and it is ONLY NOW that they are complaining?
Of course, we all know that it is corporations that determine the validity of the legislature’s legislation. Therefore, all Apple needs to do is work up a campaign of this law and hashtag it #DontSayPay
For seven years both Apple and the employee were ignorant of the law’s existence.
I worked for NYC agency for 38 years and got paid bi-weekly. Someone is severely misinformed.
Seems the point in contention for bi-weekly vs weekly payroll was whether the work was considered ‘manual labor’. Was your work for NYC considered ‘manual labor’?