The National Board of Labor Relations is investigating the charges of two Apple employees for alleged coercion and retaliation in the workplace after employees he spoke openly about workplace conditions such as pay equity and sexual harassment.
Documents released according to this month’s Freedom of Information Act, one case describes a series of reprisals against an engineer, Ashley Gjovik, who was identified in the press. Gjovik said the company had left him on administrative leave, reassigned his position and reduced the scope of his responsibilities in violation of employee rights after ruling on the company’s problems. .
The retaliation, Gjovik said, was intended to deter others from speaking out.
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Gjovik further accused the company of ignoring harassment by a manager and subjecting it to hostile and unsafe working conditions. Charges also say she was identified without her consent to a person reported anonymously for sexual harassment.
Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but to the company he told Reuters Thursday afternoon investigates all concerns raised by employees. According to reports, the company declined to comment on any specific allegations citing “respect for the privacy of the people involved.”
Dear Scarlett, Apple Engineer, said Bloomberg had filed the second complaint.
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Scarlett told reporters she had tried to create a Slack channel in the workplace dedicated to discussing pay equity issues, but that the company had turned down, which she said was not work-related. Scarlett said another channel had been approved and that it was dedicated to table football.
Speaking to Gizmodo last month, Scarlett said Apple had repeatedly stifled employee efforts to conduct a wage transparency survey as the first reported by the Virgin in August. Gizmodo confirmed last month, as many as 2,300 Apple employees had taken the survey; however, it was not enough to provide a clear picture of the whole company.
The complaints follow a rare explosion of activism within Apple, so far, by a small number of workers. Workers organized under the label #AppleToo last month with the stated goal of exposing “persistent patterns of racism, sexism, inequity, discrimination, intimidation, suppression, coercion, abuse, unjust punishment and uncontrolled privileges.”
“For too long,” they said, “Apple has avoided public scrutiny.”