Elon Musk’s Space Company Withheld Meal Breaks, Wages, Suit Says

Employees at SpaceX, a spacecraft manufacturer owned by Elon Musk, were allegedly denied meal breaks, rest periods, overtime compensation, and pay for unused vacation, according to a suit filed in a California state court.

Current and former employees were refused certain rights guaranteed to them by the California Labor Code, the complaint said. The employees also weren’t allowed to leave the premises for lunch without permission and SpaceX allegedly failed to provide accurate itemized wage statements, the lawsuit said.

Company security procedure allegedly caused employees to work overtime, for which they weren’t compensated, because security points required them to ...