diff --git a/common/changes/@microsoft/rush/fix-empty-error-logs_2024-11-08-01-18.json b/common/changes/@microsoft/rush/fix-empty-error-logs_2024-11-08-01-18.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3b10ce20ccd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/changes/@microsoft/rush/fix-empty-error-logs_2024-11-08-01-18.json
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+{
+  "changes": [
+    {
+      "packageName": "@microsoft/rush",
+      "comment": "Fix an issue where empty error logs were created for operations that did not write to standard error.",
+      "type": "none"
+    }
+  ],
+  "packageName": "@microsoft/rush"
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/libraries/rush-lib/src/logic/operations/ProjectLogWritable.ts b/libraries/rush-lib/src/logic/operations/ProjectLogWritable.ts
index cac65421518..a281a31ad65 100644
--- a/libraries/rush-lib/src/logic/operations/ProjectLogWritable.ts
+++ b/libraries/rush-lib/src/logic/operations/ProjectLogWritable.ts
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ export class SplitLogFileWritable extends TerminalWritable {
     this.errorLogPath = errorLogPath;
 
     this._logWriter = FileWriter.open(logPath);
-    this._errorLogWriter = FileWriter.open(errorLogPath);
+    this._errorLogWriter = undefined;
   }
 
   // Override writeChunk function to throw custom error