Twitter is embroiled in a fresh legal battle over alleged unpaid severance to its former employees. The lawsuit, filed in San Francisco federal court, accuses the company of failing to pay at least $500 million in promised severance to thousands of employees who were laid off following Elon Musk's acquisition of the company.
A former Twitter employee has filed a new lawsuit against Twitter and its owner, Elon Musk, alleging that the company failed to fulfill its commitment of providing the full amount of severance promised to employees during mass layoffs in November.
Twitter Inc on Wednesday was hit with a lawsuit accusing it of refusing to pay at least $500 million in promised severance to thousands of employees who were laid off after Elon Musk acquired the company. Courtney McMillian, who oversaw Twitter's employee benefits programs as its "head of total rewards" before she was laid off in January, filed the proposed class action in San Francisco federal court. McMillian claims that under a severance plan created by Twitter in 2019, most workers were promised two months of their base pay plus one week of pay for each full year of service if they were laid off.