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.
This would be like issuing me a $1 fine for speeding; here’s two dollars, now I’m really gonna speed.
TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world 11 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.dev 11 months ago
Would be fun to fine companies by percentage with increasing values for repeat offenses.
Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 11 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.
sfcl33t@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s how punitive damages are supposed to work, according to John Grisham
ilega_dh@feddit.nl 11 months ago
To put this into perspective, if you make $100k/y: this is $30
In other words: a joke
LukeMedia@lemmy.world 11 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.