Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is dealing with a number of allegations of sexual misconduct and harassment by eight former SpaceX engineers, in response to a court docket submitting on Wednesday cited by a number of media sources.
The lawsuit, which names Musk instantly as a defendant, claims the plaintiffs had been fired at Musk’s route in retaliation for elevating considerations about his habits in an open letter. The lawsuit claims Musk fostered a “wildly uncomfortable hostile work surroundings…upon his conduct of interjecting into the office vile sexual pictures, memes, and commentary that demeaned girls and/or the LGBTQ+ group.” The grievance escalates a grievance beforehand filed with the Nationwide Labor Relations Board. A choice in favor of the staff by the NLRB was subsequently contested by SpaceX claiming the company’s construction was “unconstitutional” and administrative judges and members are improperly insulated from elimination.
The information of a lawsuit in opposition to Musk comes within the wake of a Wall Avenue Journal article on Wednesday claiming Musk “pursued girls working at [SpaceX] for intercourse, together with a former intern.” The Journal article elaborates on a number of incidences of sexual impropriety by the billionaire CEO, some beginning out as consensual and ending badly, whereas others declare that Musk didn’t comply with his firm’s personal guidelines pertaining to harassment within the office.
SpaceX’s president, COO, and longtime worker of Musk, Gwynne Shotwell, claims the Journal’s reporting comprises “untruths, mischaracterizations, and revisionist historical past [that] paint a totally deceptive narrative,” including that she is “amazed by what this extraordinary group of persons are attaining each day even amidst all of the forces performing in opposition to us. And Elon is without doubt one of the greatest people I do know.”
