Lawsuit says Twitter owes sacked staff $734 million

Courtney McMillian, who oversaw Twitter’s worker advantages applications as its “head of whole rewards” earlier than she was laid off in January, filed the proposed class motion in San Francisco federal court docket on Wednesday.

McMillian claims that below a severance plan created by Twitter in 2019, most staff have been promised two months of their base pay plus one week of pay for every full yr of service in the event that they have been laid off. Senior staff corresponding to McMillian have been owed six months of base pay, in keeping with the lawsuit.

However Twitter solely gave laid-off staff at most one month of severance pay, and lots of of them didn’t obtain something, McMillian claims.

Twitter laid off greater than half of its workforce as a cost-cutting measure after Musk acquired the corporate in October.

Twitter now not has a media relations division. The corporate responded to a request for remark with a poop emoji.

The lawsuit accuses Twitter and Musk of violating a federal regulation regulating worker profit plans. Twitter has already been sued for allegedly failing to pay severance, however these instances contain breach of contract claims and never the advantages regulation. The corporate has stated it has paid ex-employees in full.

A pending lawsuit filed final month accuses Twitter of additionally failing to pay tens of millions of {dollars} in bonuses it owes to remaining staff. Twitter has stated the claims lack advantage.

The corporate can also be dealing with a sequence of different lawsuits stemming from the layoffs that started final yr, together with claims that it focused girls and staff with disabilities.

Twitter has denied wrongdoing within the instances during which it has filed responses.

-with AAP

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