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250k fine is very misleading: > OSHA has subsequently forced Dish to pay $157,024 in back wages, $100,000 in compensatory damages, as well as the former employ
by xenophanes 13y ago
250k fine is very misleading:
> OSHA has subsequently forced Dish to pay $157,024 in back wages, $100,000 in compensatory damages, as well as the former employee's legal fees.
so 157k was paying a debt, not really a fine.
- 001sky 13y agoThe OSHA headline is fairly precise: US Department of Labor's OSHA orders DISH Network to pay more than $257,000 in wages and damages to blacklisted former employee Back wages typically are "lost opportunity" payments, and not debts (in plain english usage), but rather contingent liabilities (because they are un-earned until administratively granted). Similarly to how none of this was a "fine" but it was an "ordered" payment.