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According to the article DPR, the contractor, fired then. The only connection to Apple is that they were working on the Apple campus. Apple is not their boss, DPR is. Apple hired DPR to do a job.
From the OPs link.
Apple does not own DPR as far as I know.
What puzzles me is how did Apple obtain the information that construction workers of another company which has nothing to do with their own business had felony convictions?
And why would they conduct those checks in the first place. After all, construction workers are hardly going to be a threat to an IT company of Apple's standing.
What puzzles me is how did Apple obtain the information that construction workers of another company which has nothing to do with their own business had felony convictions?
And why would they conduct those checks in the first place. After all, construction workers are hardly going to be a threat to an IT company of Apple's standing.
Where did it say that Apple did any checks? Apple hires a company to do a job, the company they hired fired felons, Apple did not fire them.
There's a market. I paid around $4000.00 for my MAC...
Not a very big one. And Apple did make the mac pro in the US but it cost $4000 +. But it is a small segment of their sales and it's expensive when you consider that I am typing this on a $200 lap top that fill my computing needs. There is no need for many to have a big expensive system when a little net book would meet their needs.
Over 50% of people who work in construction are convicted felons? That's quite a lot of people. Can you please cite your source? I would like to see that stat and see where it's coming from. Thanks.
Yeah, that's crazy. Sure, there are some people in construction that have felony convictions but not nearly 50%.
I will say that it is not completely unheard of for a private company to have restrictions like that, but much more for government affiliated sites. I work in commercial construction and sometimes if we are doing work at the airport or somewhere else that requires background checks, we do have to be careful of who we send out, but its certainly not half the company or half our subcontractors.
The workers fired has been working for the construction company for some time. It was only when Apple's requirement that person with a felony conviction could not work on site came to issue that the workers were fired.
It is obvious that what Apple did doesn't fit into the nice and tidy idea some here have about Apple but the FACT remains that Apple is the one that required those workers be fired. What is the difference if Apple said fire them but someone else did it? Apple is the owner, just as if you hired a contractor and then told the contractor that some workers were smoking and you don't allow smoking on your property. You might as well have fired them yourself. I know that does not mesh with apologist thinking but those are the facts.
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