2024-01-05 22:30:26
– SpaceX takes legal action to avoid hearing anti-Musk ex-employees
SpaceX filed a complaint Thursday against the American labor inspectorate to prevent the hearing of former employees claiming to have been fired for criticizing the boss, Elon Musk.
Published: 01/05/2024, 11:30 p.m. Updated 3 hours ago
SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California.
AFP
The aerospace company claims that the operation of the U.S. labor regulator, the NLRB, is unconstitutional and that the hearing process violates the group’s right to a jury trial, according to a copy of the complaint filed with a federal court in Texas.
The complaint does not refute the idea that the former employees were fired for asking their colleagues to sign a letter criticizing Elon Musk’s behavior on social media.
“The open letter requested that SpaceX take certain steps to address the perceived deficiencies” and referred to an investigation, according to the court document. A small group of SpaceX employees used the company’s internal communications platform to send the open letter to thousands of colleagues in June 2022.
«Anticonstitutionnel»
In this letter, SpaceX employees asked the company’s management to look into what they considered to be derogatory and inappropriate comments from the tempestuous leader on Twitter – renamed X last summer – according to American media.
Employees who were subsequently fired filed complaints with the NLRB, accusing SpaceX of violating labor laws. The agency is scheduled to hear eight of them on March 5. SpaceX has asked a federal court in Texas to stop the hearing from happening and rule that the NLRB’s structure violates the Constitution.
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