The celebrity CEO knows firing all those employees in retaliation was illegal.

He doesn’t care.

If they sue him, he will keep it in the court system for five years before anything happens, and in the mean time, he will have sent a message to employees at all his companies that they will be fired if they say anything bad about the company.

He is the one who was talking about free speech right?

Elon Musk

SpaceX

SpaceX fires at least five over letter critical of Elon Musk

June 17 (Reuters) – Private rocket company SpaceX fired at least five employees after it found they had drafted and circulated a letter criticizing founder Elon Musk and urging executives to make the firm’s culture more inclusive, two people familiar with the matter said.

SpaceX did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

The New York Times reported on Thursday that SpaceX had fired employees associated with the letter, citing three employees with knowledge of the situation. It had not detailed the number of employees who had been dismissed.

SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell sent an email saying the company had investigated and “terminated a number of employees involved” with the letter, the New York Times said.

The newspaper said Shotwell’s email said employees involved with circulating the letter had been fired for making other staff feel “uncomfortable, intimidated and bullied, and/or angry because the letter pressured them to sign onto something that did not reflect their views”. – Source

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