{"id":1192430,"date":"2023-10-14T14:31:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T18:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1192430"},"modified":"2023-10-14T14:31:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T18:31:32","slug":"us-labor-board-says-x-illegally-fired-a-worker-in-retaliation-for-critical-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1192430","title":{"rendered":"US labor board says X illegally fired a worker in retaliation for critical tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"

X\u2019s firing of an employee who pushed back against a return-to-office policy imposed by Elon Musk last year was illegal, the National Labor Relations Board alleges. In what Bloomberg<\/ins><\/em><\/a> reports is the NLRB\u2019s first formal complaint against X Corp., filed on Friday, the labor board accused the company of retaliating against software engineer Yao Yue for attempting to organize workers in the wake of the new policy. After Musk gave then-Twitter employees an ultimatum in November 2022 to return to the office, Yue urged others not to resign in response but instead \u201clet him fire you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Musk at the time had told employees, \u201cIf you can physically make it to an office and you don\u2019t show up, resignation accepted.\u201d Yue was fired five days after tweeting about it and writing a similar post on Slack. In terminating her, the complaint<\/ins><\/a> filed by a San Francisco branch of the NLRB alleges the company violated federal labor law by \u201cinterfering with, restraining, and coercing employees\u201d exercising protected rights, according to CNBC<\/ins><\/em><\/a>. A hearing is now set for January 30.<\/p>\n

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Don’t resign, let him fire you. You gain literally nothing out of a resignation. https:\/\/t.co\/4OcZKag0UZ<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Yao Yue \u5cb3\u5ce3 (@thinkingfish) November 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

The formal NLRB complaint may be a first for X, but accusations of retaliation against employees are nothing new for a Musk-helmed company. In early 2023, Tesla workers in Buffalo, New York accused the company of firing them for unionizing<\/ins><\/a>, and eight SpaceX employees filed a complaint with the NLRB<\/ins><\/a> in 2022 claiming they were terminated for criticizing Musk.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/us-labor-board-says-x-illegally-fired-a-worker-in-retaliation-for-critical-tweet-183132363.html?src=rss
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