Image: APA/AFP/Amy Osborne
Former Short Message Service executive in charge of compensation programs, Courtney McMillian, filed the lawsuit in federal court in San Francisco.
According to this, in a 2019 severance plan created by Twitter, most employees who were fired were promised two months’ base salary plus one week’s salary for each full year of service. Managers like McMillian were promised six months’ base salary. However, Twitter paid the laid-off employees a maximum of one month’s severance pay, and many of them received nothing.
McMillian applied for class action status. Twitter no longer has a PR department, and the company responded to a request for comment with a pile of feces emoji, as usual. Since Tesla CEO Elon Musk took over Twitter in October, the company has laid off more than half of its employees. In connection with this, several lawsuits are pending, for example because of the arbitration process.
Source: Nachrichten
