Musk Connections: HR Director at SpaceX
DOGE Deployments: OPM
Other Affiliations:
- She appears to own a metal working company called MB Custom Metal LLC. The Better Business Bureau lists her as a “managing member”.
SPACEX, WHERE MICHELLE-MLODZIANOWSKI WAS AN HR DIRECTOR, HAS BEEN SUED FOR MAINTAINING A CULTURE OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT
- Lawsuits have accused the company of a workplace culture plagued by sexual harassment and racism.
- The social culture at SpaceX has been likened to a college fraternity. It led eight employees to file a civil rights lawsuit against the company and Musk, in which they claimed, per Bloomberg, “men at the company subjected women to crude jokes that echoed Musk’s tweets, openly stared at their chests, relentlessly asked them out and declared them biologically incapable of being engineers. Rather than punishing the misconduct, the fired employees allege, Musk and other executives punished those who called for change.”
- The employees who filed the civil rights case were fired by SpaceX. The NLRB sued SpaceX for the terminations, while “alleging that the company illegally interrogated, surveilled and retaliated against workers.” The case was temporarily blocked in May 2024, though it is still ongoing.