Former Twitter employees settle lawsuit where they claimed $500 million of unpaid severance
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·Social MediaFormer Twitter employees settle lawsuit where they claimed $500 million of unpaid severanceBy The Associated PressBy The Associated Press Twitter headquarters is shown in San Francisco, Nov. 4, 2022....
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·Social MediaFormer Twitter employees settle lawsuit where they claimed $500 million of unpaid severanceBy The Associated PressBy The Associated Press Twitter headquarters is shown in San Francisco, Nov. 4, 2022
AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, FileElon Musk’s X has reached a tentative settlement with former employees of the company then known as Twitter who’d sued for $500 million in severance pay
The parties disclosed the deal in a Wednesday court filing asking for a scheduled Sept. 17 hearing in the case to be postponed
The San Francisco federal appeals court on Thursday agreed to postpone the hearing so that both sides could finalize the settlement agreement
The terms of the settlement were not disclosed
The posed class action lawsuit by former Twitter employees Courtney McMillan and Ronald Cooper, who said the company failed to pay them and other fired workers severance they were owed
Musk took over the social media platform in 2022 and let thousands of employees go, eliminating entire teams dedicated to trust and safety, human rights and making the site accessible to people with disabilities
Other lawsuits, including one filed by Twitter executives including former CEO Parag Agrawal, are still pending
The billionaire’s apach to gutting Twitter’s workforce served as a template for his months-long leadership of President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, as it cut tens of thousands of federal workers earlier this year
An announcing a “deferred resignation offer” to federal workers, mising pay through September without having to work, was titled “Fork in the Road,” echoing a similar Musk sent to the Twitter workforce in 2022
Musk’s drawn-out legal battles with more than 2,000 former Twitter workers were also a precursor to the court battles the Trump administration is now fighting over federal downsizing, though the circumstances are different
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