Google illegally underpaid thousands of workers

Post by toomuchtodo » Fri, Sep 10, 2021, 9:06 PM UTC

elliekelly wrote: post #39

toomuchtodo wrote: post #11

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Hopefully they're getting paid [1] for their efforts! [1] https://www.sec.gov/whistleblower "The Commission is authorized by Congress to provide monetary awards to eligible individuals who come forward with high-quality original information that leads to a Commission enforcement action in which over $1,000,000 in sanctions is ordered. The range for awards is between 10% and 30% of the money collected." From this post…

It’s pretty messed up that “defrauding investors” is the legal action most likely to succeed in court and not, ya know, defrauding the people they actually defrauded.

Post by ChrisLomont » Fri, Sep 10, 2021, 9:11 PM UTC

willcipriano wrote: post #13

bko wrote: post #9

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> Civil law vs. criminal law: Punishment > Another important distinction between civil and criminal law is the type of penalty paid for being found guilty. In a criminal case, if the individual charged with a crime loses the case, they’re likely facing incarceration or some type of probation. For civil cases, the resolution to a case doesn’t result in the “losing” party going to jail. Often the judgement results in a…

> Section 2 makes it an offence to commit fraud by false representation in any form. For a representation to be false, the representation being made must be wrong or misleading, and the person making it must know that it is, or might be, wrong or misleading.[0] I think it is reasonable to presume that by paying it's contractors, Google and by virtue it's executive team was representing to said contractor that they we…

Post by literallyaduck » Fri, Sep 10, 2021, 9:25 PM UTC

CobrastanJorji wrote: post #42

literallyaduck wrote: post #26

Time for a class action against Google. The whole industry could have depressed wages from their actions.

Today in "class action over the whole industry having depresed wages from their actions" history, this month marks the 21st anniversary of the DoJ filing a complaint against Google, Apple, Intel, and Adobe for agreeing not to poach each other's employees. The companies eventually settled a civil class action suit for $415 million.

Post by neil_s » Fri, Sep 10, 2021, 9:33 PM UTC

elliekelly wrote: post #39

toomuchtodo wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hopefully they're getting paid [1] for their efforts! [1] https://www.sec.gov/whistleblower "The Commission is authorized by Congress to provide monetary awards to eligible individuals who come forward with high-quality original information that leads to a Commission enforcement action in which over $1,000,000 in sanctions is ordered. The range for awards is between 10% and 30% of the money collected." From this post…

It’s pretty messed up that “defrauding investors” is the legal action most likely to succeed in court and not, ya know, defrauding the people they actually defrauded.

Post by beepbooptheory » Fri, Sep 10, 2021, 9:37 PM UTC

ashtonkem wrote: post #27

threatofrain wrote: post #3

> Google executives have been aware since at least May 2019 that the company was failing to comply with local laws in the UK, Europe and Asia that mandate temporary workers be paid equal rates to full-time employees performing similar work, internal Google documents and emails reviewed by the Guardian show. > But rather than immediately correct the errors, the company dragged its feet for more than two years, the doc…

As I keep saying: there’s nothing more dangerous than a company (or department in this case) that was once wildly profitable and is now merely profitable. It’s absurd that even at places like Google, which has effectively infinite money, there’s still this present attitude of not being able to afford paying workers. Nuts.