Twitter is being sued by an ex-employee:Here’s why

Elon Musk-owned Twitter is reportedly being sued by considered one of its ex-employees for failing to pay the anticipated value of authorized arbitration. According to a report by Bloomberg, the ex-employee filed a lawsuit within the Northern District of California on July 3. The case is Fabien Ho Ching Ma v. Twitter, 23-cv-03301, US District Court, Northern District of California (San Francisco).

The report says that Twitter Inc. is refusing to interact in arbitration with ex-employees who had been fired when Elon Musk took over the corporate after pushing them to make use of that course of to resolve claims that they weren’t paid, didn’t get promised severance, or had been discriminated in opposition to, in response to a lawsuit.

Twitter, now X Corp has been accused of failing to pay 1000’s of employees laid off in 2022 after Musk’s acquisition, violating quite a few labor and office guidelines.

Bloomberg says that about 2,000 former Twitter workers have resorted to preventing their claims in arbitration as the corporate has demanded. But as per the criticism filed in San Francisco federal court docket, Twitter hasn’t proven up.

Shannon Liss-Riordan, a lawyer representing former Twitter workers, stated she continues to file arbitrations and is fielding calls from present workers submitting such claims who argue the corporate hasn’t paid final 12 months’s bonuses. 

Elon Musk took over the cost of Twitter final 12 months after shopping for it for $44 billion. After taking cost, Musk fired about half of Twitter’s 7,500 employees in November, 2022. The layoffs continued in 2023 and the present headcount at Twitter is underneath 2,000, as per studies.

Elon Musk just lately introduced that non-verified customers can be restricted to 600 tweets per day whereas these with verified accounts can learn as much as 6,000 posts each day, with the restrict being simply 300 for newly-unverified ones. Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino in a press release, stated that the ‘temporary limit’ was set so as to crack down on spam accounts. She acknowledged that Twitter’s mission necessitated such measures to strengthen the platform and referred to the revamp as significant.

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Updated: 06 Jul 2023, 05:12 PM IST

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