Twitter is facing a second lawsuit this month over accusations that it owes at least $500 million to its former employees in severance pay, the latest in a series of cases arising after Elon Musk’s takeover of the social media company.
Reuters reported that the class action lawsuit in Delaware federal court, filed by former Twitter chief engineer Chris Woodfield, also alleges that the company targeted older workers for layoffs, a claim not made in other pending cases.
Woodfield says the company repeatedly told employees they would get two months’ salary and other payments if they were laid off, but he and other workers never received that money.
Twitter has laid off more than half of its workforce
Twitter had laid off more than half of its workforce as a cost-cutting measure, after Musk acquired the company last October. But the company has defended its policy in response to other lawsuits, asserting that laid-off workers received full pay.
Twitter was also previously accused in several separate lawsuits of disproportionately dismissing women and workers with disabilities, not giving prior notice of layoffs, as well as not paying the promised bonuses to the rest of the employees, while the company denied the allegations at the time.
It is noteworthy that last week a similar lawsuit was filed in a federal court in California, which included a claim to Twitter for a debt of more than $ 500 million to former employees.
2023-07-19 11:38:00
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