Fined less than $40k. Great, problem fixed, everyone!
this post was submitted on 27 May 2024
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Yeah, that's not a fine, that's a fee.
Cost of doing business, as usual.
Racism removal only costs 40k? Perhaps we can get a loan.
It did say it had to pay that 31k to everyone who complained to the dept of labor. Now I take that as 31k per person, so if I am correct and that's a big if that could be a good chunk of money. All that being said, it's not enough.
Meanwhile, the company denied it had approved the posting and blamed a disgruntled employee working for its subsidiary in India.
"It wasn't our fault, it was the dark-skinned guy's fault" is an interesting way to try to excuse your white racism...
Considering it said "[Don't share with candidates]" and allegedly the Indian employee is the one who shared it with candidates, I think I can guess what he was righteously "disgruntled" about!
Even if the guy happily posted the ad, that is the most tone-deaf way they could have responded to this. Even just coming out and saying, "yep, we meant whites only when we said whites only" would have been less tone-deaf.
"Thousands of dollars" in fines is orders of magnitude too low.
Edit: also, what the actual fuck:
Under the arrangement, Arthur Grand will pay a civil penalty of $7,500, along with a total of $31,000 to 31 people who complained about the posting. The company — which is minority-owned and a federal contractor designated a disadvantaged business — will also be monitored to ensure compliance with anti-discrimination laws.
That company should've instantly lost those "disadvantaged business" and "Federal contractor" designations permanently!
Oh w t f, that's all crazy
So the fine is less than what the company would pay in wages in three weeks for that position.
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Only fined? Whoever made that requirement is going to continue causing damage. This person should be banned from any management position or position where they have power over other people.
Company should be banned. Nobody should do business with them anymore.
The company should have lost its business license and had its IP released to the public domain. Someone might actually care.
we are so fucking soft on racism and bigotry.
string them up in the town square.
Saying the quiet part out loud.
In this case, literally!
[Don’t share with candidates]
When Republicans talk about free speech, this is what they mean.
Can we please:
A) stop allowing companies to settle with the "while not admitting any wrong doing"
B) stop fining companies finger slaps, not even hand slaps? Make fines depend on their annual revenue and see how fast they'll behave
C) start requiring companies to divulge the parson who is the source of said wrong doing, and the person who signed off on wrong doing, and prosecute these persons also individually from the company, criminally if need be
This way, companies will start behaving a lot faster, or, you know, at all.
Right now you know that this company will still hire a white dude even though they're not saying it again in the ad.
Sir that would mean rich people would be held accountable and we just can't have that kind of talk around here
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The fine is pathetically low. And that needs to be fixed.
However, the name "Arthur Grand Technologies" will always be synonymous to racism. They dug their own grave.
However, the name “Arthur Grand Technologies” will always be synonymous to racism.
For now. This will be memory-holed in a couple weeks. A couple grand is nothing, maybe just a slightly down quarter. They should have been completely annihilated. Crimes like this shouldn't be fixed dollar amounts; it should be percentages of average annual gross earnings, and in this case, something like 300% annual gross earnings. Let them sell everything off.
You can't post that. Racism at work is illegal.
What happens if we're racist at work?
You get fined.
So, legal, but just not for free.
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We can't even hire WHITE PEOPLE now? I TOLD YOU Whites were being hated just because of our SKIN COLOR! And I'm TOTALLY NOT RACIST!
I feel you man. It's this WOKE guvment and this CANCEL culture. I make observations AND conclusions and now I'm RACIST? I'm just lucky I'm on disability.
As usual they never admitted wrongdoing... And the person in charge who made the decision was not identified or dealt with....So they'll do it again if they think they can get away with it
This company simply said the quiet part out loud. Without that whites only requirement, they would have only hired whites anyways.
Who wants to start a lawsuit trolling company where we scrape, ingest and search for anything we can sue for discrimination and donate as much of the proceeds to charity of a competing viewpoint as we possibly can?
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Rookie mistake. You're not supposed to say the quiet part out loud.
apparently racism is acceptable to the DOJ as long as the $38,500 premium racist tier is unlocked
I get that DOJ/DOL may be unable to fine more than they did here because of case law or statutes or whatever the fuck, but it doesn't change the fact that penalties like this are far too small to truly function as penalties
Arthur Grand Wizard Technologies
As they should be.
$1000 fine is not even a slap on the wrist.
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