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...

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Apple reaches $25M settlement with the DOJ for discriminating against US residents during hiring
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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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Would be fun to fine companies by percentage with increasing values for repeat offenses.

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.

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

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.

Close the loop holes

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

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