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