Apple reaches $25M settlement with the DOJ for discriminating against US residents during hiring
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This is the largest amount that the DOJ has collected under the anti-discrimination provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

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.

  • TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.worldEnglish
    893·
    8 months ago

    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.

    • 0x0@programming.devEnglish
      361·
      8 months ago

      Would be fun to fine companies by percentage with increasing values for repeat offenses.

      • GingaNinga@lemmy.worldEnglish
        36·
        8 months ago

        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.

        • keckbug@lemmy.worldEnglish
          131·
          8 months ago

          Cool, but tricky. It’d have the effect of simply contracting out loads of positions to sketchy labor companies

          • SinningStromgald@lemmy.worldEnglish
            9·
            8 months ago

            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.

            • demonsword@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              8 months ago

              Close the loop holes

              big business owns Congress, they’d just bribe lobby for new loopholes to exploit

    • ilega_dh@feddit.nlEnglish
      13·
      8 months ago

      To put this into perspective, if you make $100k/y: this is $30

      In other words: a joke

      Edit: and full disclosure: I’m a full-blown Apple fan

      • LukeMedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        For more perspective, you’d need to make $100k/y net income tax. As a random example, in North Carolina with state and federal taxes, not accounting for any deductions, that’d be about $142k/y.

        Adding this because with personal salaries people typically see and think of the gross number.