The National Labor Relations Board claims that X’s firing of an employee who defied a return-to-office policy enacted by Elon Musk last year was unlawful. In the NLRB’s first formal complaint filed Friday against After Musk gave then-Twitter employees an ultimatum to return to the office in November 2022, Yue urged others not to resign in response but instead to “let him fire you.” “.
At the time, Musk told employees: “If you physically make it to the office and don’t show up, the resignation will be accepted.” Yue was fired five days after he tweeted about it and wrote a similar post on Slack. With her firing, the complaint filed by an NLRB branch in San Francisco alleges that the company violated federal labor law by “interfering with, restricting and coercing employees in the exercise of protected rights,” according to CNBC. A hearing is now scheduled for January 30.
The formal NLRB complaint may be a first for X, but allegations of retaliation against employees are nothing new for a Musk-led company. In early 2023, Tesla workers in Buffalo, New York, accused the company of firing them for unionizing, and eight SpaceX employees filed a complaint with the NLRB in 2022 alleging they were fired for criticizing Musk.