Applewhite's only punishment was a salary freeze for 11 months of 2009.
All six of the employees agreed to a salary freeze until the year was over and the company could see how much money it made.
One of his last acts as president was to recommend a salary freeze for the next fiscal year.
In 2011, the District's administrators accepted an on year salary freeze.
The company expects to save $55 million from the salary freeze.
For the last three years there has been a salary freeze.
His union workers have agreed to a salary freeze until 2003 and are giving up paid personal days this year.
It provides for a salary freeze until mid-1998 and flat $1,000 pay hikes in each of the two following years.
Analysts said the salary freeze would allow Digital to avoid a layoff.
But Digital imposed a salary freeze in 1982 for three months during an industry slump.