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The Nationwide Labor Relations Board has withdrawn “lots of the claims” it made in opposition to Apple in relation to circumstances introduced in 2021<\/a> by former staff, in line with Bloomberg<\/em><\/a>. Specifically, it dismissed an allegation that Apple CEO Tim Cook dinner violated employees’ rights when he despatched an all-staff electronic mail that yr, which stated “individuals who leak confidential data don’t belong” within the firm. Cook dinner additionally stated within the electronic mail that Apple was “doing all the things in [its] energy to determine those that leaked” data from an inside assembly the earlier week, whereby administration answered employees’ questions on pay fairness and Texas\u2019 anti-abortion legislation.<\/p>\n Apple did not \u201ctolerate disclosures of confidential data, whether or not it\u2019s product IP or the small print of a confidential assembly,” Cook dinner wrote on the time. The NLRB has now withdrawn a few of the claims made in complaints by former worker Ashley Gj\u00f8vik, together with that Apple instructed staff to not disclose firm communications, and that it had suspended Gj\u00f8vik in retaliation and fired her unlawfully. However, not the entire allegations have been withdrawn. Apple settled a separate case with Gj\u00f8vik again in April<\/a>, which she introduced<\/a> as a win for employees, because the settlement required Apple to revise guidelines round worker agreements and discussions of firm data to make clear “that staff can discuss their pay, working circumstances, and union organizing with out retaliation,” and converse to the press, amongst different issues.<\/p>\n As well as dropping its declare that Cook dinner’s electronic mail violated employees’ rights, the labor board can also be withdrawing its allegation that the firing of activist Janneke Parrish, one of many leaders of the #AppleToo motion, broke the legislation. It is dismissing its earlier allegations that Apple broke the legislation by imposing confidentiality guidelines and surveilling employees or making them suppose they have been below surveillance, as nicely. After an investigation, NLRB beforehand got here to the conclusion that Cook dinner’s electronic mail and Apple’s general conduct have been “interfering with, restraining and coercing staff within the train of their rights.”<\/p>\n Bloomberg<\/em> says this is only one occasion of the NLRB being extra pleasant to firms below President Trump. We have reached out to the NLRB for extra data.<\/p>\n Correction, September 27, 2025, 6:42PM ET:<\/strong> This story incorrectly said that the NLRB had withdrawn claims made in opposition to Apple in complaints filed by staff together with Cher Scarlett. Scarlett’s prices in opposition to Apple, which relate to pay fairness, suppression of wage discussions and constructive discharge, haven’t been withdrawn or dismissed.<\/p>\n This text has additionally been up to date to incorporate extra details about allegations by former worker Ashley Gj\u00f8vik which have been withdrawn, and about Apple’s earlier settlement with Gj\u00f8vik.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Nationwide Labor Relations Board has withdrawn “lots of the claims” it made in opposition to Apple in relation to circumstances introduced in 2021 by former staff, in line with Bloomberg. 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