Twitter is going through a second lawsuit claiming it owes no less than $500 million in severance pay to former staff. The proposed class motion filed by former Twitter senior engineer Chris Woodfield additionally alleges that the corporate focused older staff for layoffs, although the criticism doesn’t state his age.
Woodfield, who labored for Twitter out of Seattle, says the corporate repeatedly informed workers that they might obtain two months’ wage and different payouts in the event that they have been laid off, however that he and different staff haven’t obtained the cash. He has accused Twitter of breach of contract and fraud.
In keeping with the lawsuit, Woodfield signed an settlement to arbitrate work-related authorized disputes that require Twitter to pay the preliminary charges to permit particular person circumstances to proceed. He says that he initiated an arbitration towards Twitter earlier this yr.
However Woodfield claims Twitter has refused to pay the price in his case, blocking it from going ahead. That declare was made by tons of of ex-employees in a separate case earlier this yr.
Twitter has not responded to that lawsuit, which claims it violated a federal legislation regulating worker profit plans by failing to abide by the phrases of a severance plan established earlier than Musk acquired the corporate.
Twitter laid off greater than half of its workforce as a cost-cutting measure after Elon Musk acquired the corporate final October. The corporate has been accused in a number of separate lawsuits of disproportionately shedding girls and staff with disabilities, failing to present advance discover of layoffs, and never paying promised bonuses to its remaining workers. Twitter has denied these claims.
(With Reuters inputs)
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