Elon Musk’s X is reportedly getting sued by former workers. Here’s why

Social media large X (previously Twitter), led by billionaire Elon Musk, is dealing with 2,200 arbitration claims from former workers of the corporate.

According to a CNBC report citing court docket data, the case is Chris Woodfield v. Twitter, X Corp. and Elon Musk (No. 1:23-cv-780-CFC).

Woodfield, a former senior community engineer at Twitter, labored out of the corporate’s Seattle workplace. He claims the social media large promised after which didn’t pay his severance, and even delayed different dispute decision by failing to pay the charges required for the JAMS arbitration system.

Lawyers for X have argued that the corporate did not require these workers to resolve points by way of arbitration, and due to this fact should not be pressured to pay a big portion of the submitting charges. Meanwhile, Woodfield and different former workers are attempting to get out of arbitration and take their circumstances to court docket, CNBC reported.

According to the JAMS web site, the submitting payment for two-party issues is $2,000, whereas for issues primarily based on a clause or settlement that could be a situation of employment, workers are solely required to pay $400.

Given that JAMS has determined to use its base charges to the two,200 arbitrations towards X, this is able to imply a whopping $3.5 million in submitting charges alone, with different charges more likely to comply with.

The report famous that just like the Woodfield case, X Corp is being sued with a category motion filed in a San Francisco federal court docket, the case is Ma v. Twitter, within the Northern District of California (No. 3:23-cv-3301).

Former Twitter workers allege that X/Twitter delayed a minimum of 891 arbitration circumstances by failing to pay the required submitting charges after forcing them to comply with arbitrate their disputes in trade for severance pay.

More lately, the US Department of Justice sued one other Elon Musk-led firm, SpaceX, for alleged hiring discrimination towards refugees and other people looking for or who’ve been granted asylum.

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Updated: 01 Sep 2023, 07:46 AM IST