The US Department of Justice: Apple will pay $25 million to settle recruitment discrimination allegations. The US Department of Justice claims that Apple violated anti discrimination regulations when recruiting employees under the PERM labor certificate. PERM is a government program that allows employers to sponsor employees who meet specific requirements to apply for legal permanent resident status. The US Department of Justice stated that Apple has not posted positions recruited through the PERM program on its external website and has requested applicants to submit paper applications.