[btilly]

Let's clarify definitions, shall we? Quoting from https://www.lawinsider.com/dictionary/working-conditions I find:

Working Conditions means the conditions under which the work of an employee is performed, including physical or psychological factors.

The things that that letter discusses affects the psychological factors of the work. Committing to making people feel included, defining what toxic behavior will not be accepted, and so on.

Your linked definition includes in working conditions, "...all existing circumstances affecting labor in the workplace." This fits with the definition that I gave - the behaviors that you have to put up with from coworkers affects labor in the workplace.

[native_samples]

The argument you're advancing here, though it may be popular with some kinds of lawyers, is tantamount to arguing that any discussion at all could be considered about working conditions. Once you start trying to classify the personal tweets of the CEO as "working conditions" you're starting a fast track to eventually having working conditions be stripped of its legal weight, as it'll turn into just another rule being exploited by woke culture warriors in ways it was never meant to be used.

[mbesto]

> Once you start trying to classify the personal tweets of the CEO as "working conditions"

This is way too reductionist. These aren't just "Musks tweets", they are directives about employee policies that are publicly stated, but not private enforced (because, to the author's criticism, they have no strict definitions). Furthermore they have clear (or at least implied clearly) repercussions: "don't behave they way we want to or you're fired".

> all could be considered about working conditions.

Actually, I think what the author is asking for is clarity about working conditions, not necessarily the working conditions are good/bad - they're just ambiguous.

[shakes_mcjunkie]

Is there anyone asking for anything in a workplace that you wouldn't call a "woke culture warrior"? Using that kind of language marks you as pretty disingenuous to the argument.

[btilly]

You are attempting a reductio ad absurdum by saying that since the potential consequences of the rule you outline leads to a result that you don't like, said rule cannot actually exist.

This is backwards. There are lots of rules out there which I'm sure you dislike. Therefore your dislike of this one is irrelevant.

And I say that despite agreeing with you about how it might be abused. And despite wondering whether the people calling for more diversity and exclusion in this letter may be the kind of people to abuse it that way. Rules are rules, and we should try to apply them fairly, especially when applied to people we dislike.

[Aeolun]

Haven’t we already seen that the SEC thinks Musks personal tweets hold legal weight?

[FireBeyond]

The SEC does, because at least Tesla states that they are an "official corporate communication channel". Though Tesla was pressured (by who?) to do so because shareholders were complaining about how they should interpret his tweets.

[fakethenews2022]

Only those that relate to disclosures involving Tesla.

[FireBeyond]

> Once you start trying to classify the personal tweets of the CEO as "working conditions"

Maybe those companies shouldn't include statements like this in their corporate filings then:

"The Twitter account @elonmusk is considered an official corporate communication channel."

Especially when Musk is tweeting from it things like changes to remote work policies.