Atlassian Says Staff Has No Right to Suggest CEO ‘Rich Jerk’ (1)

Atlassian Corp. illegally fired an employee for criticizing its CEO over workplace changes and how he talked to staff, US labor board prosecutors allege.

At a March 3 hearing in Austin, a National Labor Relations Board attorney said the fired software engineer, Denise Unterwurzacher, had been acting in the spirit of Atlassian’s own stated “Open Company, No Bullshit” philosophy when she repeatedly spoke her mind about workplace issues, including changes to employees’ titles. Letting Atlassian fire her “would upend well-established principles” under US law, NLRB attorney Colton Puckett told an agency judge, according to a transcript obtained by Bloomberg via ...