Overview

• Agency prosecutors withdrew claims tied to Apple’s confidentiality rules, the firing of organizer Janneke Parrish, and alleged surveillance or the impression of surveillance.
• The case centered on a 2021 all-staff email in which Tim Cook said Apple would identify leakers and that people who leak confidential information do not belong at the company.
• The dispute originated with complaints filed in 2021 by former employee Ashley Gjovik challenging Cook’s email and Apple’s handbook policies.
• Apple has consistently denied wrongdoing and did not respond to new requests for comment, while the NLRB declined to comment on the withdrawal.
• Bloomberg reported that the pullback aligns with Cowen’s narrower enforcement posture, even as the NLRB continues to pursue separate cases involving Amazon and Grindr.