An official from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled that the managers at a Tesla service center in Florida broke U.S. labor laws by telling employees not to discuss their pay nor their working conditions.
According to the ruling, the trouble started in 2021, when some employees who had been working at the service discovered that new hires were being paid more than them, and brought their complaints to management, reports Reuters.
One technician even contacted a Tesla vice president, who forwarded the email to the head of its human resources department. Despite that, the supervisors at the service center held a meeting in which they instructed 25 employees not to discuss their pay or their working conditions. They also told the employees not to file complaints with higher level managers, according to Michael Rosas, the NLRB administrative law judge who presided over this case.
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Weeks later, the technician who filed a complaint with the higher-ups was fired, prompting them to file a complaint against Tesla with the NLRB. In February, a hearing was held, in which Tesla argued that it had posted a notice in the service center notifying employees that workers could discuss their pay.
Despite that, the judge ruled that Tesla had violated its workers’ fundamental rights under U.S. labor law by attempting to silence employees, and prevent them from banding together.
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