Thinking about the policy in terms of punishments and fairness isn’t the right approach. Something happened that cost the company a great deal of resources, so

Thinking about the policy in terms of punishments and fairness isn’t the right approach. Something happened that cost the company a great deal of resources, so the company is trying to prevent such a thing from happening again. It may be doing a poor job at that, but it isn’t punishing you and it isn’t about fairness. It’s trying to prevent a future mistake. And because the company is a single entity, it is the company choosing to bear the cost. It may make your job harder and they may not modify its expectations properly after imposing this cost on you, but that isn’t punishment or fairness. It is poorly thought out systems.