{"id":269448,"date":"2024-01-04T08:22:15","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T13:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=323350"},"modified":"2025-07-01T17:17:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:17:15","slug":"elon-musk-is-facing-a-lawsuit-for-firing-spacex-employees-who-criticized-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/elon-musk-is-facing-a-lawsuit-for-firing-spacex-employees-who-criticized-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk is facing a lawsuit for firing SpaceX employees who criticized him"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SpaceX<\/strong> is facing a lawsuit from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)<\/strong> alleging that the company illegally fired employees for writing an open letter criticizing Elon Musk<\/strong>, its CEO.<\/p>\n\n\n

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A group of employees from SpaceX<\/a> wrote an open letter last year to express their concern about how Musk’s behavior “is a frequent source of distraction and embarrassment”<\/strong>. At that time, Musk was trying to acquire Twitter<\/strong><\/a>, which he later renamed as “X”<\/strong><\/a> after taking control of the company. Shortly after, SpaceX fired the employees who helped write the letter<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the complaint filed this Wednesday, the NLRB accuses SpaceX of interrogating workers about their involvement in the letter<\/strong> and telling employees not to discuss these interviews. NLRB spokesperson Kayla Blado<\/strong> told Reuters<\/a><\/strong> that SpaceX violated workers’ federal right to collectively press for better conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The labor agency claims that SpaceX “created an impression of surveillance”<\/strong> by reading and displaying screenshots of messages between employees, and adds that the company tried to prevent employees from sharing the open letter<\/strong>. SpaceX also allegedly “invited employees to resign and threatened to fire them” if they participated in organized activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NLRB is asking SpaceX to post a notice about employee rights for 120 days and wants the company to write apology letters to each of the employees it fired, among other things. A hearing with an administrative law judge from the NLRB is scheduled for March 5, 2024<\/strong>, unless SpaceX attempts to reach a settlement on the charges. Any decision made by the judge can be appealed to the board and taken to the federal appeals court.<\/p>\n\n\n

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SpaceX is facing a lawsuit from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleging that the company illegally fired employees for writing an open letter criticizing Elon Musk, its CEO. A group of employees from SpaceX wrote an open letter last year to express their concern about how Musk’s behavior “is a frequent source of distraction … Continue reading “Elon Musk is facing a lawsuit for firing SpaceX employees who criticized him”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9256,"featured_media":269450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-269448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9256"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315411,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269448\/revisions\/315411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269448"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=269448"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=269448"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=269448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}