Enlarge / Apple Retailer at Backyard State Plaza mall on November 4, 2023, in Paramus, New Jersey. (credit score: Getty Pictures | Gary Hershorn )
Apple illegally discriminated towards US residents and different US residents in its hiring and recruitment practices for sure kinds of positions that went to overseas staff, the US Division of Justice stated yesterday. Apple agreed to pay as much as $25 million in again pay and civil penalties to settle the DOJ allegations.
Apple discriminated “towards US residents and sure non-US residents whose permission to reside in and work in the US doesn’t expire,” the company stated. The $25 million fee was known as the most important ever collected by the Justice Division underneath the anti-discrimination provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).
Apple is required to pay $6.75 million in civil penalties and create an $18.25 million fund to supply again pay to these harmed by its hiring practices. Apple didn’t admit guilt within the settlement. However the firm acknowledged in an announcement that it had “unintentionally not been following the DOJ customary,” in accordance with Reuters.
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