Apple reaches $25M settlement with the DOJ for discriminating against US residents during hiring | The DOJ said that Apple’s hiring practices favored visa holders and left out US citizens and perma…::This is the largest amount that the DOJ has collected under the anti-discrimination provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
aka 0.03% of their reported profits for the 2023 fiscal year. This isn’t even a slap on the hand or a penny found under the couch. This is a grain of sand on the beaches of a planet on the other side of the galaxy.
As has been said many times: Laws are made for everyday people like you and me, not for megacorps like Apple.
Would be fun to fine companies by percentage with increasing values for repeat offenses.
While we’re at it it would be cool to peg CEO pay to the lowest position available so that if the CEO wants a raise everyone else gets a proportionate increase.
Cool, but tricky. It’d have the effect of simply contracting out loads of positions to sketchy labor companies
Which is why you include contracted, temporary, part-time and full-time workers. And/Or set limits on the number of contracted workers compared to full/part/temp time workers for the same position. Close the loop holes.
Close the loop holes
big business owns Congress, they’d just
bribelobby for new loopholes to exploit
That’s how punitive damages are supposed to work, according to John Grisham
This would be like issuing me a $1 fine for speeding; here’s two dollars, now I’m really gonna speed.
the US is so anti labor its a joke
Apple made $97 billion this year.
It will take them about 2 hours and 15 minutes to make that money back.
Penalties should be done in percentages, and not in actual dollar amounts.
Cool, cool.
Now do every other tech company
Unless they are forced to make a change, nothing will change.
