Musk’s X Claims Right to Fire Worker Who Protested RTO Policy, Citing Insubordination
- US labor board hears complaint about return-to-office protest
- Agency has repeatedly faced off with billionaire’s companies
The X company headquarters in San Francisco, California.
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Elon Musk’s X Corp. had the right to fire an employee over her online posts protesting its return-to-office policy because she was being insubordinate, the company told a US labor board judge.
“The complaint is dead on arrival in our view,” and “a no-brainer,” the social media company’s attorney David Broderdorf said Tuesday in opening arguments at a National Labor Relations Board hearing in San Francisco.