纽约（美国有线电视新闻网）美国劳工部已对苹果展开举报人调查，这是这家著名的秘密公司与其现任和前任员工之间紧张关系蔓延到公众视野的最新迹象。
劳工部发言人周二对 CNN Business 表示：“我们可以确认，苹果公司正在对举报人进行公开调查。”劳工部的举报人保护计划由职业健康与安全管理局 (OSHA) 管理，负责调查雇主涉嫌报复对员工安全等问题表示担忧的员工的案件。
劳工部拒绝透露有关调查或促使调查的任何细节。但据美国有线电视新闻网 (CNN Business) 审查的一份 OSHA 发给 Gjøvik 的信件副本显示，前苹果 (AAPL) 员工 Ashley Gjøvik 周五收到 OSHA 的通知，称已根据她今年早些时候提交的投诉展开调查。
Gjøvik 是 Apple 的前高级工程项目经理，最近几个月一直直言不讳，因为她说她于 2021 年 3 月开始向公司提出有关她工作的加利福尼亚州桑尼维尔办事处的环境和健康安全问题的担忧。她告诉 CNN Business，苹果拒绝了她的担忧，并要求她不要谈论这些。 Gjøvik 随后向美国环境保护署和证券交易委员会提出投诉。
根据她的 OSHA 投诉，Gjøvik 于 8 月初被停职，并于 9 月 9 日被解雇，她声称这是对报告她的担忧的报复。
针对劳工部宣布的调查和 Gjøvik 的报复声明，苹果重申了过去的声明：“我们一直并且一直致力于创造和维护一个积极和包容的工作场所。”
苹果发言人乔什·罗森斯托克 (Josh Rosenstock) 在声明中表示：“我们认真对待所有问题，并在提出问题时进行彻底调查，出于对任何相关个人隐私的尊重，我们不会讨论具体的员工问题。”
英国《金融时报》和《纽约时报》此前曾报道过劳工部调查的消息。
劳工部的调查只是苹果与其员工之间日益紧张的最新升级。最近几个月，员工们打破了公司传奇的保密文化，在一场被称为#AppleToo 的员工运动中就有争议的招聘决定、涉嫌的薪酬差异和远程工作政策发表意见。
苹果公司还面临现任和前任员工向国家劳工关系委员会提出的投诉，其中包括#AppleToo 领导人 Janneke Parrish，后者声称她被解雇是为了报复她的组织工作。 （苹果当时没有对帕里什的解雇做出具体评论。）
上个月，该公司发布了一份声明，确认员工有权就薪酬和工作条件发表意见，这一举措被#AppleToo 运动称为胜利。
Apple faces Labor Department investigation as tensions with employees escalate
New York (CNN Business)The US Department of Labor has launched a whistleblower investigation into Apple, in the latest sign of tensions between the famously secretive company and its current and former employees spilling over into public view.
"We can confirm that there is an open whistleblower investigation at Apple," a Department of Labor spokesperson told CNN Business Tuesday. The Labor Department's whistleblower protection program, administered by the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), investigates cases of alleged retaliation by employers against workers who raise concerns about issues such as employee safety.
The Labor Department declined to share any details about the investigation or what prompted it. But former Apple (AAPL) employee Ashley Gjøvik on Friday received notification from OSHA that it has opened an investigation based on a complaint she filed earlier this year, according to a copy of a letter OSHA sent to Gjøvik that was reviewed by CNN Business.
Gjøvik, a former senior engineering program manager at Apple, has been outspoken in recent months about concerns she said she began raising to the company in March 2021 about environmental and health safety issues at the Sunnyvale, California office where she worked. She told CNN Business that Apple rebuffed her concerns and asked her not to speak about them. Gjøvik then filed complaints with the US Environmental Protection Agency and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Gjøvik was suspended from her job in early August and fired on September 9, according to her OSHA complaint, in what she claims was retaliation for reporting her concerns.
In response to the announcement of the Labor Department investigation and Gjøvik's claims of retaliation, Apple reiterated a past statement: "We are and have always been deeply committed to creating and maintaining a positive and inclusive workplace."
"We take all concerns seriously and we thoroughly investigate whenever a concern is raised and, out of respect for the privacy of any individuals involved, we do not discuss specific employee matters," according to the statement from Apple spokesperson Josh Rosenstock.
News of the Labor Department investigation was previously reported by the Financial Times and New York Times.
The Labor Department investigation is just the latest escalation of the growing tension between Apple and its workforce. In recent months, employees have broken the company's legendary culture of secrecy to speak out on controversial hiring decisions, alleged pay disparities and remote work policies in an employee movement that has come to be known as #AppleToo.
Apple has also faced complaints by current and former employees to the National Labor Relations Board, including by #AppleToo leader Janneke Parrish, who alleged that she was fired in retaliation for her organizing efforts. (Apple did not comment specifically on Parrish's firing at the time.)
Last month, the company released a statement affirming employees' right to speak out about pay and working conditions, a move the #AppleToo movement called a win.
