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The OSHA headline is fairly precise:

US Department of Labor's OSHA orders DISH Network to pay more than $257,000 in wages and damages to blacklisted former employee

Back wages typically are "lost opportunity" payments, and not debts (in plain english usage), but rather contingent liabilities (because they are un-earned until administratively granted).

Similarly to how none of this was a "fine" but it was an "ordered" payment.



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