The social network has been ordered to pay more than 550,000 euros in compensation to a former employee for unfair dismissal.
A wave of layoffs that is costing Twitter (now X) dearly. The social network, which laid off thousands of employees after its acquisition by Elon Musk, must now compensate one of them for unfair dismissal.
As reported the RTÉ websitethe Workplace Relations Commission (WRC), the independent public agency responsible for industrial relations in Ireland, has ordered X to pay €550,131 in compensation to Gary Rooney, a former senior executive who was dismissed after failing to respond to an email from Elon Musk.
Unfair dismissal
In the email, sent in November 2022, X’s owner asked employees to agree to unspecified new pay terms within 24 hours to “build a revolutionary Twitter 2.0.” Those who didn’t click “yes” on the email were to receive three months of severance pay.
Gary Rooney claims he was fired for not clicking the “yes” button, explaining that the company refused to communicate with him or his lawyer afterward. X believes that the former executive made a conscious decision not to click “yes” in the email, knowing that doing so would mean he would resign from his job. His access to the company’s systems and network was cut off.
The social network also claims that Gary Rooney wrote several messages to his colleagues, in which he stated that he was leaving the company. Denying that he had resigned, the former executive believes that the time period given by X to make such a decision cannot be considered “reasonable”. The WRC also concluded that the fact of not clicking “yes” was “not capable of constituting an act of resignation”.
