By the ti e if your post I’m guessing you think it would be okay to leak business confidential information…and not get fired. Or bullied as YOU see it.
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Apple Violated U.S. Labor Laws With Anti-Leak Email
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this is NOT about leaking "business confidential information" though.
read the whole article, not just headline.
Apple is mainly preserving of fundamental rights and looks to be on the right side of history around the same time as centrists. I think Apple usually approaches in a less partisan way to consider it left-wing. Particularly since Apple is slow to back issues and avoids more divisive areas. The left is often early to be on the right side of history, but not necessarily getting all the details right despite their conviction. In fact, sometimes to an extent they set their cause back. The right usually gets on the right side of history eventually after at least a decade or two and by then the details are figured out. Apple is somewhere in the middle where most of the details are figured out, so time to start setting them in stone.
Being a California company, their employees are more likely to support Democrats. Although I feel California has been swinging more independent after so many failed policies. Apple has been spending more lobbying democrats lately, but mainly because they are the larger threat to App Store regulation.
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Because of stupid laws. How anyone can run a business these days is beyond me.
Apple has been insanely successful under Tim. Hopefully he stays longer.
When Apple BECOMES Big Brother...
1984 Superbowl ad creator is turning in his grave.
At least they ditched the 'woke apple logo' before woke came along and groomed our children."
1984 Superbowl ad creator is turning in his grave.
GOP: "Just don't mention the sexuality of Apple's boss and you're golden.
At least they ditched the 'woke apple logo' before woke came along and groomed our children."
The op I quoted thought it was “great” that apple got its hand slapped for the letter.
correct, because what they are trying to do is stop people talking, but was nothing to do with "business confidential information". and they are rightly getting slapped for it.
From the article:
"Cook's email wasn't referencing a product leak, but was instead aimed at employees who had shared details about a meeting focused on pay equity, working from home, COVID vaccinations, and more."
Everyone agrees that leaking product information or intellectual property and such can be restricted. The issue at hand is Apple considering information about general HR policies as confidential and threatening employees accordingly.
The article specifically says that the issue is with Apple trying to consider meetings about labor practices and general HR policy as confidential, specifically as it relates to pay equity, work-from-home, and COVID-19 policies. No one is disputing that companies have the right to protect their intellectual property.
No, they are trying to stop the leaks of business confidential information. Which could be anything that apple defines.
And they can do that for trade secrets, but pay, WFH policy, etc. aren't trade secrets.
No, it couldn't, because laws exist.
Nope. There are very strict US labor laws about allowing employees to discuss joining a union and other labor practices about the workplace. They can not just wave a magic wand and say "these labor practices are confidential."
Confidential is what a company defines as confidential.
And none of that protected confidential information involves discussing pay equity or working conditions. Nice straw man though.
The company could say that salary information is confidential, but federal law trumps Apple’s rules. It’s baffling if this is news to you.
You don’t think an employee can be reprimanded and / or fired by leaking salary information? That’s baffling.
Their own salary information? No, they cannot.
“Under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA or the Act), employees have the right to communicate with other employees at their workplace about their wages. Wages are a vital term and condition of employment, and discussions of wages are often preliminary to organizing or other actions for mutual aid or protection.”
It's a federal law that you cannot directly influence the stock price of a company by leaking confidential information to competitors or to the public, of which competitors are a portion.
What is the difference between leaking of trade secrets, and what happened here? It is a trade secret what Apple is working on and intends to release to the public. A meeting about a trade secret is Insider Information. How are the leakers walking away from Insider Information control laws and Apple gets in trouble?
What is the difference between leaking of trade secrets, and what happened here? It is a trade secret what Apple is working on and intends to release to the public. A meeting about a trade secret is Insider Information. How are the leakers walking away from Insider Information control laws and Apple gets in trouble?
totally incorrect, and it's not anything that apple decides to define.
The difference is that "we require our employees to be in the office x days a week" is not a trade secret.
NLRB isn't disputing that.
Why would he go? Tim Cook has led Apple’s to growth in to a trillion dollar company!
The NLRB is just shaking down Apple for a payout. - Not a penny of which will go to benefit workers.