Good news for workers grumbling about return-to-office mandates, if not for employers who want to enforce a common work culture: The National Labor Relations Board has declared that employees can’t be fired for staying home.
On Friday the labor board charged X, formerly Twitter, with violating the National Labor Relations Act by terminating a software engineer who complained about new owner Elon Musk’s return-to-office policy. “If you can physically make it to an office and you don’t show up, resignation accepted,” Mr. Musk allegedly told workers.
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