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.

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.

@Elliott@lemmy.world
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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 US is so anti labor its a joke

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Apple made $97 billion this year.

It will take them about 2 hours and 15 minutes to make that money back.

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Penalties should be done in percentages, and not in actual dollar amounts.

BeautifulMind ♾️
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Cool, cool.

Now do every other tech company

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Unless they are forced to make a change, nothing will change.

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