• By   • Jeff Elder   Apple Inc. is now facing another class-
action lawsuit from its workers, as 20,000 hourly wage employees
claim the computer company didn’t give them lunch breaks, rest
breaks or final paychecks in accordance with California law.
The suit over breaks and paychecks was certified as a class-
action case Monday in California Superior Court after being
filed originally in 2011. The hourly wage workers, who range
from junior engineers to Apple Store employees and call-center
representatives, argue Apple deliberately violated California
wage and hour laws.  “Very often workers were not given meal
breaks for seven or eight hours, and sometimes not at all,” said
the plaintiffs’ counsel Tyler Belong. Apple did not immediately
respond to a request for comment.  The case also claims the
company’s policies “allowed Apple to invoke fear into the class
members that if they so much as discuss the various labor
policies, they run the risk of being fired, sued, or
disciplined.”  The case, which does not ye