It seems that Apple is in the midst of reducing the working hours of staff at its retail stores, and even laying off those recently taken on.
Apple has reportedly been making cuts to its retail workforce, many of them new employees fresh out of the store’s training program.
Apple fan site MacRumors said that in recent weeks it had been told of lay-offs from a number of Apple stores – particularly in the UK – though long-term cuts in working hours for part-time staff in the US and Canada have also been reported.
According to MacRumors, one particular Apple store in the UK dismissed all employees with less than six months of service, “including a group that had been hired only one month ago and had just completed their training program.”
A separate case reported to the fan site indicated that besides new workers being laid off, some long-term retail staff who’d recently been promoted had apparently been returned to their original job position and never saw any pay increase.
An unnamed source based in the UK also told MacRumors that several training groups had been dismissed in the last week alone, “all of whom were still within their probationary periods as new employees.”…
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if all the apple stores closed i woulnt give a %*&%*^%*
Posted by wilbur rode | August 14, 2012, 2:52 pm