The National Labor Relations Board alleges that X’s firing of an employee who opposed Elon Musk’s return-to-office policy last year was illegal. According to Bloomberg, this is the NLRB’s first formal complaint against X Corp. The labor board accuses the company of retaliating against software engineer Yao Yue for trying to organize workers in response to the new policy. When Musk gave an ultimatum to then-Twitter employees in November 2022 to return to the office, Yue encouraged others not to resign but to let Musk fire them instead.
At the time, Musk stated, “If you can physically make it to an office and you don’t show up, resignation accepted.” Yue was fired five days after tweeting about it and posting a similar message on Slack. The complaint, filed by a San Francisco branch of the NLRB, claims that the company violated federal labor law by “interfering with, restraining, and coercing employees” when terminating Yue.
2023-10-14 13:31:32
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