SolarCity Corp. employees install solar panels on the roof of a home in Kendall Park, N.J. Credit: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg

SolarCity Corp. employees install solar panels on the roof of a home in Kendall Park, N.J.
Credit: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg

On Monday, Oct. 5, Stuart Farrell had planned to take the morning off from his job as a researcher at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colo., after being awake all night taking care of his sick 2-year-old son. But at 10:30 a.m., he received a call asking him to come in for an 11:30 meeting.

“I woke up, got myself as awake as possible, and came into work,” Farrell said. “My manager and I went to a meeting with the person above him, and they told me that I was let go. And I had the rest of that day to pack up my stuff and leave.”Farrell, who had worked in solar energy research at the laboratory for two and […]

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