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US court rules Twitter breached contract over failure to pay annual performance bonuses
23Dec By adminNo Comments
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US court rules Twitter breached contract over failure to pay annual performance bonuses

[ad_1] A US federal court ruled on Friday that social media company Twitter, now branded X, violated contracts by failing to pay annual performance bonuses it orally promised its workers.The breach-of-contract lawsuit was brought by former employer Mark Schobinger in June. The lawsuit said Twitter had promised workers a 2022 performance bonus if they stayed with the company through the final possible payout date, which was the first quarter of this year. The court threw out Twitter's attempts to have the case dismissed, ruling that Schobinger's claim of breach of contract under California law was valid.We are now on WhatsApp. Click to join."Schobinger has plausibly stated a breach of contract claim under California law. He alleges that Twitter orally promised to pay each employee a port...
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Twitter’s laid-off workers cannot pursue claims via class-action lawsuit-judge
15Jan By adminNo Comments
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Twitter’s laid-off workers cannot pursue claims via class-action lawsuit-judge

[ad_1] Donato granted Twitter's request to force the five ex-employees to pursue their claims individually, citing agreements they signed with the company. Twitter Inc has secured a ruling allowing the social media company to force several laid-off workers suing over their termination to pursue their claims via individual arbitration than a class-action lawsuit. U.S. District Judge James Donato on Friday ruled that five former Twitter employees pursuing a proposed class action accusing the company of failing to give adequate notice before laying them off after its acquisition by Elon Musk must pursue their claims in private arbitration. Donato granted Twitter's request to force the five ex-employees to pursue their claims individually, citing agreements the...
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Elon Musk-led Twitter is anti-women? ‘Humiliated’ workers sue company
10Dec By adminNo Comments
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Elon Musk-led Twitter is anti-women? ‘Humiliated’ workers sue company

[ad_1] The discrimination lawsuit is the latest in a series of legal challenges over Musk's decimation of Twitter's workforce through mass layoffs and firings. Two women who lost their jobs at Twitter when billionaire Elon Musk took over are suing the company in federal court, claiming that last month's abrupt mass layoffs disproportionately affected female employees.The discrimination lawsuit is the latest in a series of legal challenges over Musk's decimation of Twitter's workforce through mass layoffs and firings. Days after the world's richest man bought the social media platform for $44 billion, the company told about half of employees on Nov. 4 that they no longer had a job but would get three months severance. The lawsuit filed in a San Francisco federal court this week alleges...
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Elon Musk’s First Email to Twitter Employees Ends Remote Work
10Nov By adminNo Comments
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Elon Musk’s First Email to Twitter Employees Ends Remote Work

[ad_1] New Twitter Inc. owner Elon Musk emailed his workers for the first time to prepare them for “difficult times ahead” and ban remote work unless he personally approved it. New Twitter Inc. owner Elon Musk emailed his workers for the first time late Wednesday to prepare them for “difficult times ahead” and ban remote work unless he personally approved it.Musk said there was “no way to sugarcoat the message” about the economic outlook and how it will affect an advertising-dependent company like Twitter, according to the email reviewed by Bloomberg News. The new rules, which kick in immediately, will expect employees to be in the office for at least 40 hours per week, he added. Twitter has been under Musk's leadership for close to two weeks, in which time he has dismissed roughly ha...
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