[discardorama]

The sad part is that even though this behavior is illegal, no one will actually go to jail for this. Companies will pay a token fine (like Pixar and Lucasfilm did), and it'll be business as usual, but this time no emails and no documentation.

Unless a few people end up in jail for this, nothing will change.

[denzil_correa]

> Unless a few people end up in jail for this, nothing will change.

That's pretty much it. Does the govt come down on corporations for such acts? One rarely sees corporate honchos being jailed for such incidents. More often than not, it is a fine and then things move on to find and execute a different loophole.

[discardorama]

> One rarely sees corporate honchos being jailed for such incidents.

... except when the corporate honcho refuses to do the government's bidding; in that case, his ass thrown into prison. See: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/09/30...

[gizmo686]

You don't need people to go to jail. One solution is to replace the token fine with a fine large enough that it is cheaper to play by the rules.

[abofh]

It's a civil case, the companies are being sued by employees for back-compensation, not by the government for shady practices.