Apple has reportedly fired Ashley Gjøvik, chief engineering program manager, for allegedly leaking information from the private company.
Gjøvik, who has worked at the company since 2015, told The Verge he learned Thursday that his employment at Apple was coming to an end, effective Friday.
The dismissal comes months after it was made public with allegations of harassment, sexism and intimidation at Apple, alleging that senior employees kept a white board of votes on ways to make their “life a living hell” and weeks after filing formal complaints with federals. regulators.
Gjøvik has also said she was regularly excluded from major emails and that some bosses would pressure employees to drink alcohol during working hours.
Gjøvik first raised his concern in March that his office would be in an Apple building in a superfund location, where there is a history of waste contamination.
She was placed on administrative leave in August while the company investigated some of her allegations. And later that month, he filed a formal complaint with the National Labor Relations Board, which is investigating the matter.
He said he also filed complaints with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the California Labor Commissioner’s Office and the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission.
Now, he said, Apple has fired her for allegedly violating the company’s policy on leaking private information, several outlets reported.
“When I started posing safety issues in the workplace in March and faced retaliation and intimidation almost immediately, I began to prepare for something like this to happen,” he told The Verge. “I’m disappointed that a company I’ve loved since I was little treated its employees that way.”
On Thursday, Gjøvik documented some of his interactions with Apple that led to his shooting on Twitter.
She posted an image Thursday afternoon on Twitter that appeared to show a member of Apple’s employee relations team contacting her about a “sensitive intellectual property issue” and wanted to talk to she in an hour.
Gjøvik responded by saying that he was sending the email to the NLRB researcher and that he wanted to keep all communication in writing.
The Apple employee allegedly said that Gjøvik chose not to participate and would act on the information they had. “Given the seriousness of these allegations,” the email image says, this would mean suspending Gjøvik’s access to Apple systems.
Hours later, Gjøvik was told in an email that his tenure at Apple was coming to an end, effective Friday, he told The Verge.
“We are and have always been deeply committed to creating and maintaining a positive and inclusive workplace,” Apple said in a statement to the dam. “We take all concerns seriously and investigate thoroughly whenever a concern arises and, out of respect for the privacy of the people involved, do not discuss employee-specific issues.”