Not sure, but I think he is in trouble anyway due to the fact he disclosed personal medical information. And although the employee isn't an American, the company operates in the U.S. and I think still is under HIPPA and ADA. As a manager I know for a fact disclosing someone's personal medical information and saying or implying that they are fired for those reasons is a huge problem for Musk now.
Oh, he’s definitely in trouble. But the purported $100M accelerated payment for the aqui-hire dwarfs whatever the penalty would be for the HIPAA or employment violations.
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Oh for sure!
HIPAA only applies to covered entities as defined under the statute. Most employers don't meet this definition, but they probably could be sued for disclosing personal medical information under specific circumstances.
I am not very savvy with the ins and outs of HIPAA, but I just got slapped down for a grey area on ADA and was advised about a doctors note that contained Employee health data and my possession of it. Due to the employee feeling they had to share with me, to meet employer 3+ days out on sick leave mandate. I was shocked that just by having that in my possession there was potential privacy issues. Rightly so the ADA compliance officer at work, not only advised me to delete it but to also notify the employee that I no longer had it in my possession.
There’s also a world of difference between HIPAA and ADA. As a (non-healthcare) employer you don’t need to know anything about HIPAA, but you should be familiar with the ADA.
Well, Scandanvia+Finland is where you can draw a $100K speeding ticket for 15-over, so I would not be confident about Elno's chances there.
Actually I think he’s Iceland but yeah I would imagine that still applies in general.
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Making the code open source “next week” was also a promise he made a month ago:Right, turns out when you fire your entire development and engineering teams you're not going to understand their code.
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I think Twitter is a lost cause - Musk has harmed it irretrievably. What concerns me more is that he remains CEO of SpaceX, which is (pardon the phrase) light years ahead of everyone else in developing rockets to launch space vehicles into Earth orbit and beyond.
They're slated to lose 32 million users by 2024, while Musk is playing a role I'm sure it was going that way anyway which is why he took such a bath on the purchase. Like AOL or MySpace, and now Meta, these platforms all seem to have a finite lifespan.
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Btw, in the interest of fairness, I should add that Starlink despite Musk’s antics and the arbitrary restrictions and so on remains the communication backbone of the UA army and according to some military analysts one of the most important pieces of equipment shipped to Ukraine - on par with Himars, artillery, etc …/cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com/reuters/J27UJSZSHBJ6TCHYZBEZZWRDCA.jpg)
SpaceX curbed Ukraine's use of Starlink internet for drones -company president
SpaceX has taken steps to prevent Ukraine's military from using the company's Starlink satellite internet service for controlling drones in the region during the country's war with Russia, SpaceX's president said Wednesday.www.reuters.com
