Apple has been accused of violating California labour laws by forcing its engineers to work more than 40 hours eight days a week.

Network Engineer David Walsh worked at Apple from 1995 to 2007 and said that after making them work hard the hard-nosed outfit refuses to pay for it. Apparently Apple has created several job levels so they can make them exempt from receiving overtime wages.

One trick is to use the word 'Senior' before the title 'Network Engineer', even though all Network Engineers perform the same duties. When 'on-call' duties lasted for seven days, every six weeks during which he was on stand-by every night without additional compensation.

He is trying to make the court case a class action which would allow any employee during the class period to join the lawsuit.

Walsh wants Apple to stump up damages and legal costs. X

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