Eight former SpaceX engineers filed a lawsuit towards Elon Musk on Wednesday, accusing the CEO of sexual harassment and retaliation. The identical group of fired workers have additionally filed complaints with the US Nationwide Labor Relations Board (NLRB) about SpaceX’s alleged retaliation. Bloomberg first reported on the lawsuit.
“Musk knowingly and purposefully created an unwelcome hostile work surroundings based mostly upon his conduct of interjecting into the office vile sexual images, memes, and commentary that demeaned girls and/or the LGBTQ+ neighborhood,” the eight former workers wrote in Wednesday’s submitting.
The previous SpaceX engineers stated a few of them had been harassed by different co-workers who “mimicked Musk’s posts,” in an alleged instance of mob bullying beneath the affect of their superior’s conduct. The plaintiffs wrote that this “created a wildly uncomfortable hostile work surroundings.”
The group labored collectively on an open letter in 2022, highlighting the Tesla founder’s allegedly problematic conduct. They are saying they had been fired in retaliation for that essay.
In keeping with Bloomberg, the submitting says the previous SpaceX engineers have purpose to imagine Musk made the choice to fireplace them in retaliation for his or her letter. The grievance claims that when a SpaceX HR official prompt the corporate conduct a proper investigation earlier than taking any decisive motion, Musk replied, “I don’t care — fireplace them.”
The engineers’ case with the NLRB has been held up by an appeals court docket injunction regardless of the board agreeing that SpaceX illegally retaliated towards them. SpaceX sued the company in January, calling its construction “unconstitutional.”
The lawsuit follows a report on Tuesday detailing allegations that Musk had sexual relations with two feminine workers and requested a 3rd to have his infants.