Twitter Mass Layoff Severance Fight Heads to Settlement Talks

09/14/2023 10:19
Twitter Mass Layoff Severance Fight Heads to Settlement Talks

Elon Musk’s X Corp. has agreed to try to settle claims by thousands of former Twitter employees who say they were cheated of severance pay when the billionaire laid them off after acquiring the social media platform last year, according to a memo by a lawyer for the workers seen by Bloomberg News.

  • X Corp. agreed to meet with employees’ lawyers, per memo
  • About 2,000 ex-Twitter employees sued for backpay, bonuses

The Twitter headquarters in San Francisco.

Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

Elon Musk’s X Corp. has agreed to try to settle claims by thousands of former Twitter employees who say they were cheated of severance pay when the billionaire laid them off after acquiring the social media platform last year, according to a memo by a lawyer for the workers seen by Bloomberg News.

“After 10 months of pressing them in every direction we have succeeded in getting Twitter to the table,” attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan wrote in the memo to her clients, which was obtained from a former Twitter employee who declined to be identified disclosing confidential information. “Twitter wants to mediate with us in a global attempt to settle all claims we have filed.”

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