Raven Ramos, who worked at Apple’s Fifth Ave. store in Manhattan for more than seven years, claims the company paid her every other week, rather than weekly, as required by state law.

Filed Monday as a class action on behalf of other workers, the complaint seeks “well in excess” of $5 million from Apple for delayed compensation payments under a law often invoked in lawsuits against employers. Ramos says her job’s manual tasks included unboxing products, emptying cash registers, and helping customers on the sales floor.

Apple is saying nothing about the lawsuit, but the fact that there is a class action involved means Ramos probably has a few mates for whom Apple ignored the law and devised its own system.

 New York law "requires companies to pay their manual workers on a weekly basis unless they receive an express authorisation to pay on a semi-monthly basis from the New York State Department of Labor Commissioner."

The suit says that Apple has received no such authorisation and has violated and continues to violate the law by paying its "manual workers" on a fortnightly rather than a weekly basis. 

The suit goes on to claim that the plaintiff has been injured by Apple's failure to them on a weekly basis because "she was temporarily deprived of money owed to her."