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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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peg CEO pay (…) CEO wants a raise

This sounds like you’re talking about salary. This strategy would need to be tied to executive compensation.

Check out the wiki on how convoluted and fucked up executive compensation can get.

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And peg politicians’ pay to minimum wage.

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That’s how punitive damages are supposed to work, according to John Grisham

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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

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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.

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This would be like issuing me a $1 fine for speeding; here’s two dollars, now I’m really gonna speed.

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The cost of doing business. At the expense of you and I

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the US is so anti labor its a joke

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Might as well just call it a fee rather than a fine or settlement.

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