[_wolfie_]

> Not only this, but he's demanding people work 12+ hour days through weekends or get fired "for cause".

Question from Europe: Is that actually legal in the US? :-O

[marstall]

possibly not - but we're all so brainwashed it wouldn't occur to us to question it ... work hard play hard!

[klyrs]

There's already a class action suit underway regarding Tesla's mass constructive dismissal, so it'll be really interesting to see all this go down. In the US, there are two things to consider: legality, and lawsuits. Regardless of legality, you can still drown in lawsuits.

[UncleMeat]

Yes. The set of conditions that make it illegal to fire somebody in the US are very very small. "I need everybody to crunch 80 hour weeks for months and months" is a thing employers can do for most forms of white collar knowledge work.

[hprotagonist]

no, but do you have the funds to prove the point?

[Volundr]

The department of labor does. Even here in Idaho it's amazing how excited the legal team gets when sent a letter of inquiry from the DoL. I imagine they have more teeth in CA.