X Accused Of Illegally Fire Employees After Elon Musk Takes Over Twitter

X Corp is accused of violating labor laws by NLRB (photo: twitter @elonmusk)

JAKARTA - X Corp, previously Twitter, was accused of violating the law by the National Labor Relations Council (NLRB). This accusation itself arose because Musk fired workers just for criticizing the policies he made.

This breach came after Musk took over Twitter. Musk sacked Yao Yue, the main software engineer who has worked for 12 years on Twitter. This dismissal itself occurred because Yue was suspected of inciting his co-workers.

This incident began when Musk sent emails to all Twitter employees, according to a CNBC report. Through the email, Musk gave his expectations to the company and said, "Any manager (field) who makes false reports about a person's performance or certain roles is very important, whether (workers) are remote or not, will be fired."

In addition, Musk also added that workers would be asked to resign if they did not attend the office, but in reality they could. In other words, workers are required to work from office.

After this email was shared, Yue commented by tweeting, "Don't resign, let him (Musk) rest. You lose if you resign." Five days after uploading this tweet, Yue was fired on the grounds of an unspecified violation of company policy.

Yue also tweeted again after he was fired. At the end of 2022, Yue shared the news of his dismissal. He wrote, "After 12 incredible years and 3 weeks of chaos, I was officially fired by Twitter."

Yue also admitted that he was surprised to have lasted for several weeks after Musk took over. Even when he was fired, Yue said he was relieved and felt the burden or the problem had disappeared.

With evidence of Yue's dismissal, NLRB then accused X of violating the national employment law by disturbing, restricting, and forcing employees to exercise their rights that should be guaranteed.

This problem also led X to legal action. The trial of the problem between X and the former Twitter employees will be held on January 30 next year in San Francisco.