The hot water in which the National Labor Relations Board has been boiling Apple is getting deeper, as the US workers' rights body has issued yet another unfair labor practice complaint alleging the constructive termination of developer and labor activist Cher Scarlett in 2021.

Scarlett played a central role in the #AppleToo movement that sought to expose unfair working conditions as well as harassment and the banning of pay discussions among corporate workers at the iGiant's Cupertino HQ in California.

It's been more than three years since Scarlett first brought the matter to NLRB, arguing Apple had broken the law. Over the course of 2021 and 2022 she lodged three separate complaints that, according to the NLRB, asserted Apple maintained "an over-broad confidentiality rule," and interfered with discussions of pay – including on Slack, with the press, and in an employee-initiated wage survey.

Scarlett claimed Apple banned any discussion of pay between employees – which would be a pretty cut-and-dry violation of the National Labor Relations Act, specifically section 8(a)(1).

Ultimately, according to the NLRB, Scarlett was illegally forced out in 2021 for organizing the aforementioned wage survey and other labor activity at Apple. The NLRB alleges Scarlett was terminated "constructively" – which refers to a practice of creating a workplace so hostile that employees resign rather than put up with the treatment.

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