After years of combating it out in courtroom, Apple Store workers in California will lastly receives a commission for the time the corporate spent checking their baggage for potential stolen merchandise whereas they had been off the clock. The payout: roughly $30 million.

According to courtroom paperwork filed within the Northern District of California on Friday, and reported by Bloomberg, a complete of 14,683 present and former Apple Store workers who labored for the corporate from July of 2009 to December of 2015 may obtain part of the settlement, which should be authorized by the district decide. The class motion lawsuit covers the corporate’s 52 shops in California was filed in 2013 by two Apple Store workers.

The workers objected to the corporate’s obligatory coverage of finishing up unpaid searches of their baggage and Apple gadgets each time they left the shop. The searches, which needed to be carried out by a supervisor or safety guard, on the whole averaged between 5 to twenty minutes, however stretched to as much as 45 minutes on the busiest days. Failure to endure these searches may have led to disciplinary motion or termination.

Although Apple argued that anybody who didn’t like getting their baggage or Apple merchandise checked may select to not convey them to work—which, talking as a former clothes retail retailer worker, could be very arduous to do as baggage typically maintain meals, snacks, water, keys, and medication, amongst others—it discontinued coverage in December of 2015.

Gizmodo reached out to Apple for touch upon the settlement however didn’t obtain a response by the point of publication. We’ll be certain that to replace this weblog if we do.

In courtroom paperwork, attorneys for the Apple Store employees state that the common payout for workers is calculated primarily based on the variety of shifts and years they labored for Apple through the interval coated by the lawsuit. The attorneys anticipate that the typical payout per class member will probably be $1,286.

The case went by many twists and turns. A decide sided with Apple’s request in 2015 to dismiss the lawsuit, nevertheless it was introduced again from the useless by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in 2020, as reported by the Courthouse News Service. The case even went earlier than the California Supreme Court, which ultimately decided that workers ought to be paid for the time spent on bag searches.

In the Supreme Court’s 2020 ruling, Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye mentioned it was ironic that Apple argued that workers may merely go away their telephones at residence in the event that they didn’t need them checked as a part of the unpaid searches.

“The irony and inconsistency of Apple’s argument must be noted,” she wrote within the courtroom’s unanimous opinion on the case. “Its characterization of the iPhone as unnecessary for its own employees is directly at odds with its description of the iPhone as an ‘integrated and integral’ part of the lives of everyone else.”