Forever 21 are being sued by their own employees

Well, this is new!

Normally when I write about High Street lawsuits - its American Apparel, so I was surprised to read this morning that Forever 21 are being sued!

Employees of the company are launching a lawsuit as they believe they are owed unpaid wages. Which sounds fair enough, until you hear why they are owed wages - for bag checks.

At the end of a shift, management/security will often check the bags of their employees. This is standard practice in every single retail job I have ever had. It takes about a minute and unless you have stolen something - then its nothing to worry about. However the F21 staff are annoyed that the bag checks are taking place AFTER they have swiped out and on their own time. Riiiiiight.....

Before this is dismissed as another stupid claim, Ralph Lauren settled out of court for the tune of 4 million for the same (but slightly larger) claim in 2010 by 6,700 employees. Which to be fair, if you had to wait for 6,700 employees to have their bag checked before you could leave - would piss anyone off.

Still, seems a bit....unreasonable doesn't it?