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Christiaan Hetzner

NLRB to Elon and other tech CEOs: No, you can’t gag workers in exchange for severance

Twitter CEO Elon Musk may have violated labor laws under a new ruling. (Credit: Marlena Sloss—Bloomberg/Getty Images)

This week the federal government struck down a key labor law ruling that could have important ramifications for Elon Musk and other tech industry moguls. 

On Tuesday, nearly a dozen former McLaren Macomb hospital staff represented by a AFL-CIO-affiliated trade union won their argument that a severance deal enforcing a gag rule deterred them from exercising their statutory rights in exchange for benefits.

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