Watchdog: There just may be something in these claims Apple broke labor laws The United States' National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) - the federal agency that protects workers' right to organize - has "found merit" in allegations that Apple's rules, handbook, confidentiality policy, and executives, are on the wrong side of labor laws. According to NLRB spokesperson Kayla Blado, there's merit to …
Of course not. This is the USA. Guilt is only determined by the court of Justice.
So you can pay millions of dollars to be able to stand up in front the press and state that you "admit no wrongdoing".
But you've still paid millions of dollars.
It does appear that this person brought a fair amount of this upon herself. Not having a dedicated work phone, agreeing to be part of a test group and then complaining about your data being slurped and tweeting out internal company information. The complaints about the building being built on a waste dump likely have merit but the rest...
Another stereotypical silly-con valley entitled millennial employee.
it's he said she said except the NLRB is investigating, which changes my assumptions.
since there are multiple instances being investigated, I'm not sure what an ad hominem based on the workers (presumed?) work location has to do with things. especially given that if the worker works in silicon valley, the company must be there too.
There is no 'presumed' about the work location as it is detailed. As I said, the fact it is built on a reclaimed and known contaminated site probably held some water however this person worked for a company notorious for going after anyone who leaked information and equally notorious for not giving two shits about anyone else's privacy. Airing your grievances on twitter in such manners and especially posting internal documentation publicly is usually going to end in some sort of backlash from management and Apple have VERY well paid lawyers and even deeper pockets.
One of the major arguments from a certain political demographic is that free speech is not free from consequences. Also that your limits on speech and action are granted by a higher authority (usually governments). Well here we have a case of someone who exceeded the rights granted by the higher authority (the employer) and is now suffering the consequences.
>> Well here we have a case of someone who exceeded the rights granted by the higher authority (the employer) and is now suffering the consequences.
You mean we have a corporation that exceeded the rights granted to it by a higher authority (government), and is now facing the consequences.
Where in US law does it state you can't have non-disclosure agreements or enforce a requirement to keep internal information private within the company? It is pretty standard contractual agreement that you do not divulge company information outside the company or in some cases within the company.
And in the US big corp is a higher authority than big govt in many cases.
you can have an NDA, but on the other hand by law there are things you are expressly permitted to say. and the law trumps contracts such as an NDA.
for example a company cannot prevent a person from reporting a crime by welding an NDA or other contract.
Which law is that? The govt has deemed the site to be 'safe'. She feels that it is not safe in what seems a similar way to the way some people say wind turbines cause infrasound which negatively affects their health, but again the certain political demographic as mentioned earlier would probably laugh at them for that. It appears to have been investigated by various air quality testing and other means and nothing was found, she was not happy about not being right so she went public with internal documentation and broke her contract.
From my research it does not appear that anyone else was affected by these supposed toxic fumes.
If there are fumes, which there could be given how contaminated some of the US is, either the tests are inadequate or the levels are set too high. The USA has a very very LOOOONG history of denying the existence of or the harm caused by pollution, mostly due to huge backhanders given to them by the polluters or it being done by the govt themselves.
OSHA and the EPA are corrupt to the core. OSHA will fire its own to protect itself.
https://sfbayview.com/2018/06/osha-attorney-dr-darrell-whitman-whistleblower-connects-the-dots/
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