Musk Gets Favorable Court Ruling In Suit Against Twitter: What It Means For Company's Laid-Off Workers

After being the archetypal quality successful past to suffer $200 billion, Elon Musk received immoderate bully news this week with a favorable tribunal ruling involving his social media company.

What Happened: A justice ruled that a radical of laid-off Twitter employees suing the concern implicit their severance compensation, person to prosecute their claims individually alternatively than arsenic portion of a people action, according to a Bloomberg report.

About 500 of the astir 3,700 Twitter employees Musk laid disconnected since taking power of the institution past twelvemonth person already filed idiosyncratic arbitration claims, according to Shannon Liss-Riordan, the lawyer who filed those claims connected the workers' behalf.

U.S. District Judge James Donato ruled connected Friday that 5 employees who filed a suit successful aboriginal November indispensable travel the presumption of their contracts and taxable to arbitration, according to Bloomberg.

The San Francisco national justice said that helium volition marque a determination aboriginal connected however to grip complaints from employees who take not to enactment successful arbitration.

Why It Matters: The tribunal ruling comes astatine a captious clip for the microblogging platform. Twitter is contending with galore ineligible disputes resulting from Musk's acquisition of the company, including targeting women for layoffs and neglecting to wage promised severance, according to Reuters.

Additionally, Twitter is grappling with astatine slightest 3 complaints made to a U.S. labour committee alleging that employees were fired for engaging successful protected enactment similar criticizing the business, trying to signifier a strike, and different actions covered by national labour law, Reuters reports.

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