More than two years after leaving the company, some former Twitter employees may ultimately receive retirement benefits. Elon Musk’s X is temporarily settling a class action lawsuit filed by a worker who was let go of shortly after purchasing Twitter.
The news comes in the form of requests that the parties delay future hearings and submitting them to the court so that they can make the transaction.
After purchasing Twitter in 2022, Musk fired more than 6,000 Twitter employees, cutting the company’s staff by about 80%. Musk offered to retire for three months, but the lawsuit alleges that many former employees were not fully paid, while some were not paid at all.
The lawsuit also claims that Musk’s three-month retirement offer is lower than what employees expected from Twitter retirement plans that were in place since 2019, which guarantees a base salary retirement of up to six months and a week of wages per year.
However, in July, a US district judge in San Francisco ruled that Musk did not need to respect the retirement agreement that these employees joined Twitter. However, the plaintiff appealed the ruling, demanding that the parties delay the hearing after being set up to enter oral arguments in the Court of Appeal next month.
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