Apple refuses to pay overtime

this reminds me of my work... if i get to work 1/2 an hour early and start work i still dont get paid. if i get to work 1/2 a second late i get docked 15 minutes, and if i get to work 15mins late its 1/2 hour docked etc... if i leve work 1 min early i get docked 15mins aswell, if i leve between 1- 15 mins late i dont get paid extra, if i leve 15 mins - 1/2 hour late i get paid a bit extra, still sucks tho... those 10mins each time do add up :(

Yeah, in their rush to pay out huge dividends to their stockholders, many companies such as Apple, will break the back of their employees by exploiting them for overtime without pay. This has become much more common a practice. The discrimination for NOT giving the company free work is present also. Come and go at the agreed upon times, and you are seen as "not a team player" and looked over for promotions, bonuses or the first on the list to be layed off. And these very same companies wonder why some lower level employees do all they can to rip the company off. Welcome to American capitalist arrogance. If you're not a higher level employee, you really are nothing more than a slave.

If you want to how bad they really are, check out page 8 of their own progress report on their Chinese factory farms of humans.

Apple are now so proud to announce that after three years of such reports, 59% of Apple's facilities still don't meet minimum wage and working hours required by Chinese law.

http://images.apple.com/supplierresponsibility/pdf/SR_2009_Progress_Report.pdf

The Apple/Foxconn death squad may catch up with him...

A long time ago my manager introduced an interesting policy to encourage accurate time-keeping.

If you were a minute late, you were expected to stay behind that minute at the end of the day.

Now bearing in mind we, as a department, often worked through out unpaid lunch hours, I argued it thus:

"If I am in one minute late, I'll leave on time, and if you complain, I'll leave the total number of minutes I worked through my lunch hour, early. So, rather than me staying until 4:31, you'll get me until 3:30. Fair?"

He backed down. Of course, roll it forward ten years, and I am now working for another employer, and thanks to the recession, can't leave and therefore have to tolerate 1-2 hours unpaid overtime a night to try to keep my employer afloat.

Very long jail sentences for millionaire managers that implement such unjust labor practices would go a long way in correcting such abuse of workers.

As much as I despise the fruit themed company I wonder if during a global recession this is a smart move? If he wins he will certainly get some money back but regardless he will also certainly find himself among the unemployed millions. Now is not the time to be badgering your employer, even if they deserve it like Apple does. I wish him luck but this is a lose lose situation. Oh well.

Total BS that these companies can get away with this. Call in the Socialist Oboma, he will send in his Socialist Union thugs and break some knee caps.

Apple (and any other company doing this) needs to pay up. No excuses. I don't care how 'hard' the times are.

If stealing from your employer is wrong then your employer stealing from you is wrong. And lets face it, unhappy employee's can hurt a company a whole lot more than the company can hurt them. It's just bad business.

Like Andrew said, employers stealing from employees is a crime. Time is money. If you're not getting paid for working overtime, don't work overtime. It's against the law. I hope Apple loses this one. Serves them right.

is that there is a law saying who should get paid when.

Maybe the the employees should put on their big girl panties and negotiate a little better when trying to get a job.

Doesn't seem like an "infrastructure" or "defense" thingg so maybe the government should butt the hell out.

Yup, the eternal favourite: "He who lives by the clock, dies by the clock".

I had one charming manager who tried reporting me to HR for being 30 seconds late twice in one week. Seriously. One of those days he knew it was because my car had been totalled in an accident on the way to work...

Luckily HR knew I was one of their best employees. It quite made my year when they told him to "grow up" whilst I was in the room :D

Why would they pay overtime? Don't those workers know that there are a thousand replacements for each one of them that are willing to work FOR FREE just to be bathed in the aura of His Jobsness? They should feel lucky they don't have to pay *Him* to work more hours.

Woz had a heart attack when he found out.

In the beginning, Woz developed a game. Jobs sold it to Atari. Woz was so happy he told Jobs he should have half, so he took it.

Thing is though, Jobs had already taken half off the top.

Ripping off your best friend. It's what being a CEO is all about.

This very Applyte is out to buck troof, injustice and the American way! Sod and salaried, Oh deed he is!

I, myself, presently have been waylaid, beset, -nay: {besieged}, by the angel of NeverSet, on the very alter's precipice of Recovery Console - Inconsolate.

Like it to say that many a volish ear hath burned in registry corruption.

Re-imaged in the likeness of vanilla.

Maybe pastel would not be too distasteful; and what is stronger than a Linux?

Tarry on, and I will be again at the till a fortnight or two, Yogi Tea.

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Yeah, because the employee wields all the power in that negotiation...

Idiot.

Working extra unpaid hours is illegal. This would include your unpaid mandatory lunchbreak. This lawsuit might embarass Apple, but it is not news. The FLSA was passed in 1938 to try to reduce employee abuse, but it has never eliminated it.

Check also your state laws. In some states the EMPLOYEE may be subject to prosecution for agreeing to work unpaid without reporting the violation to the appropriate agency. Sounds draconian, but I suspect this is to prevent the employer from requiring employees to "voluntarily" work unpaid.

http://www.dol.gov/