Apple has recently agreed to pay up to $25 million to settle claims of hiring discrimination. Accused of violating the Immigration and Nationality Act, Apple has allocated $18.75 million for a backpay fund for affected victims and $6.75 million in civil penalties, as announced by the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday.

The DOJ found this violation as Apple was recruiting their workers through a labor certification program (PERM), which works with large companies to hire foreign workers permanently in the US. When recruiting workers, Apple did not advertise positions they were looking to fill through PERM, and were also found to only accept mailed paper applications.

“These less effective recruitment procedures nearly always resulted in few or no applications to PERM positions from applicants whose permission to work does not expire,” the DOJ says. The DOJ said that it believed Apple designed these procedures in order to favor current Apple employees holding temporary visas, looking to become permanent employees.

Apple has denied the accusation in their settlement, saying that they had believed they were following the Department of Labor’s guidelines, and that any illegal hiring processes were the result of inadvertent errors.

In addition to the $25 million fine, the DOJ is requiring that Apple starts to conduct more expansive recruitment for all PERM positions by posting about them on their external job website, as well as accepting applications digitally. The DOJ says that Apple has already started integrating these practices.

Apple has committed to implementing a remediation plan that involves the creation of an official PERM recruitment policy and semiannual reporting of PERM hires and applicants to the DOJ.

Apple is not the only major company facing major hiring discrimination lawsuits from the DOJ. The DOJ has also accused SpaceX of hiring discrimination, alleging that CEO Elon Musk and his company have been refusing to hire refugees. Despite this, SpaceX has managed to block the case.