CNBC reports that the National Labor Relations Board alleged in a complaint filed Friday that X violated labor law when it fired an employee who had criticized the company. Elon Musk bought the company, then known as Twitter, in October and threatened to lay off workers who did not return to in-person office work. After Yao Yue encouraged others on the company’s Slack to let the company fire her instead of quitting, she was fired for violating an unspecified company policy.
CNBC writes that the NLRB’s complaint accuses X of discouraging employees at the company from exercising their legal employment rights. Yue claims the company fired her “in retaliation for her attempt to persuade her colleagues not to resign so that they would have a better legal basis” on which to later challenge the company.
In July, former employees of the judge filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that X failed to properly notify employees under federal and California state law. The company began laying off a large portion of its workforce in November last year.