You can’t sue me! I’m going to sue you back! I imagine that’s how the conversation went at SpaceX headquarters after the Justice Department sued SpaceX for a hiring discrimination case. Now SpaceX has sued to dismiss the same case. So what’s going on here?
“SpaceX wants to hire the very best candidates for every job regardless of their citizenship status, and in fact has hired hundreds of noncitizens,” the company wrote in its complaint.
But the DOJ sued SpaceX last month “alleging it discriminates in its hiring practices against refugees and people granted asylum in the U.S.”
I’m not going to get into the challenges of hiring people while abiding by Human Resource laws across the world. What I do find fascinating is that SpaceX has contacts with both NASA and the Department of Defence, but is also involved in lawsuits with the DOJ, FAA, and Department of Fish & Wildlife to name a few. Another example of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing in government.
SpaceX countersues Justice Department, seeking to dismiss hiring discrimination case