SpaceX Denied Workers Pay, Tried to Limit Breaks, Lawsuit Says

Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. was accused of failing to pay employees for all of their work and pressuring them to skip meal and break periods in a proposed class action filed Wednesday.

Plaintiff Juan Padilla, who worked for SpaceX for eight months in 2022, alleged in the suit that he was often required to work before clocking in for his 3 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. shift, among a suite of other labor violations. He filed the proposed class action on behalf of all non-exempt or hourly-paid SpaceX workers employed over the past four ...