In the ongoing dispute with ex-employees over their layoffs, Twitter faced a new lawsuit worth at least half a billion dollars on Wednesday. Former Short Message Service manager in charge of compensation programs, Courtney McMillian, filed the lawsuit in federal court in San Francisco.
Under this 2019 plan, created by Twitter, most laid-off workers were promised two months of base salary plus one week’s salary for each full year of service. Executives like McMillian were promised six months’ base salary. However, Twitter paid the laid-off employees up to one month’s severance pay, and many of them got nothing.
McMillian filed for class action status. Twitter no longer has a PR department, and the company, as usual, responded to a request for comment with a pile of excrement emoji. Since Tesla CEO Elon Musk took over Twitter in October, the company has laid off more than half of its employees. Various lawsuits are pending in connection with this, for example due to the arbitration process.
Source: Krone
I’m Ben Stock, a journalist and author at Today Times Live. I specialize in economic news and have been working in the news industry for over five years. My experience spans from local journalism to international business reporting. In my career I’ve had the opportunity to interview some of the world’s leading economists and financial experts, giving me an insight into global trends that is unique among journalists.
