Wrong. When you sign your contract with the employer they do have those clauses in the contract, here in the US and if memory serves in the EU as well
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Apple Violated U.S. Labor Laws With Anti-Leak Email
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The law should be fixed. But basically you get what you vote for.……
Settle how? Financially? Does anyone know?
So the NLRB is in the business of blackmail — pay us off, and then we will not file the complaint. If the information being shared was confidential, it is perfectly reasonable to not want it leaked. The people who leaked the details should be weeded out and fired.
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It surprises me that Apple, Tim Cook and his advisers didn’t know where to draw the line with their statements
Not everything that is written in a contract is valid in court. It’s different if you leak materials, documents or photos, etc. but you can’t shut up workers without a NDA.
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Private corporations are not democracies. They are a feudal, top-down, organization whose management of their employees is by order, not by election. Employees are free to leave and find another "feudal" organization to work for.
Do you mean Apple violated rights by discussing pay at the meeting? According to the article, the meeting wasn’t the violation—it was the email warning employees about leaking information (from the meeting and other company information). Or do you mean employees had a right to share information regarding pay equity at Apple with outsiders?
“Apple violated United States labor laws when it sent out an email warning employees about leaking confidential information about the company,”
And here's me thinking that most of the people working at Apple were employees-at-will like 99% of people working in the United States. I guess the politburo NLRB does not agree.
I’m sure it’s backed by a hand full of lawyers specialized in this area.
Well, in the state of California employment is “at will” and can be terminated by either side without notice/reason… but, I am not a lawyer and from your previous posts I’ve gathered you’re not a lawyer either, I could be wrong about that but I also know that the law in the US is different from the law in the EU, say Germany, esp when it comes to the rights of employees…
Oh great, the virtue signalling from Apple is about to go through the roof. As if it wasn’t bad enough already.
No offense. But, are you serious? That is why you want him to go? Every company I have worked for has rules about not sharing info from internal meetings. You seriously have to be living under a rock to have not heard this any large company.
What you like? The companies internal information posted on Twitter?
I must have missed where he violated anything in this email. The email seems fine. And, not sure why MacRumors is aging this is not related to product leak. Did MacRumors not post that part that violates labor laws?
I see. But, wow. That is really reaching.
I guess Elon Musk is toast. He is 100 times worse in his emails.
When the leaks are so juicy, even the government wants them to continue.
Who's to say he's not next? ;-) Right now it's about apple.
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Rules that Apple has established around leaks "tend to interfere with, restrain or coerce employees" from the exercise of their rights under the National Labor Relations Act, says the NLRB, as do statements from "high-level executives."
The NLRB has a fixation on apple perhaps because of the anti-union and coercion stuff from last year. Also referenced in the article: Last year, the NLRB also said that Apple violated federal law by holding mandatory anti-union meetings and interrogating and coercing employees at its Atlanta and New York store locations.
I feel like things were a lot simpler for Apple when Steve Jobs was alive. It seems like the corporate culture has really gone downhill in the last recent years.
I think Apple should be held accountable. Whoever the leaker was needs to release Apple AR/VR headset now
The same Steve Jobs who was so anti-worker that he conspired with several other large silicon valley tech companies to ensure that no one hired employees from each other to keep worker salaries artificially low?
Confidential meetings about, "pay equity, working from home, COVID vaccinations, and more" are different than confidential meetings about products.
When Jobs was there, there was an expected culture of hard work. In Silicon Valley these days, it's more about the perks and not having to work too hard. The fluffy benefits built a sense of entitlement that plagues these companies now, and makes some of these snowflakes nearly unemployable. I am happy to have escaped Silicon Valley, and I won't forget soon the bizarre world that was...
Contracts don't overrule laws. I could sign a contract saying you can shoot me and eat me, that doesn't mean you're allowed to do it.