Twitter, reportedly is being sued by one of its ex-employees for failing to pay the expected cost of legal arbitration. According to reports, the ex-employee filed a lawsuit in the Northern District of California on 3rd July. The case is Fabien Ho Ching Ma v. Twitter, 23-cv-03301, US District Court, Northern District of California (San Francisco).
According to reports, Twitter is refusing to engage in arbitration with ex-employees who were fired during Elon Musk’s taking over of the company after pushing them to use that process to resolve claims that they weren’t paid, didn’t get promised severance, or were discriminated against, according to a lawsuit.
Twitter, now X Corp has been accused of failing to pay thousands of workers laid off in 2022 after Musk’s acquisition, violating numerous labor and workplace rules.
According to lawyer Shannon Liss-Riordan who is representing former Twitter employees, she continues to file arbitrations and is fielding calls from current employees filing such claims who argue the company hasn’t paid last year’s bonuses.
Elon Musk took over the charge of Twitter last year after buying it for $44 billion. After taking charge, Musk fired about half of Twitter’s 7,500 workers in November, 2022. As per reports, the layoffs continued in 2023 and the current headcount at Twitter is under 2,000.
Elon Musk recently made an announcement about non-verified users to be limited to 600 tweets per day while those with verified accounts can read up to 6,000 posts daily, with the limit being just 300 for newly-unverified ones.
Linda Yaccarino, Twitter’s CEO stated that the ‘temporary limit’ was set in order to crack down on spam accounts. She added that Twitter’s mission necessitated such measures to strengthen the platform and referred to the revamp as meaningful.
