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Apple has agreed to pay $29.9 million to store workers in California after the Supreme Court ruled Friday against the tech giant's policy of forcing its employees to submit to security bag checks, despite them being off the clock.
The ruling comes following an eight-year legal battle, when a group of Apple employees sued their employer back in 2013, arguing the company was violating California state law by not paying them for their time spent undergoing the security checks, according to court documents.
The employees also had to let their Apple products be inspected and verified during the searches.
'This is a significant, non-reversionary settlement reached after nearly eight years of hard-fought litigation,' the plaintiffs' attorney Lee Shalov, wrote in the proposed settlement.
'If approved, this will be the largest reported settlement in a security search case in California,' Shalov added prior to Friday's ruling.
The lawsuit specifically covers employees who work at California's 52 Apple stores.
