X Corp. by Elon Musk has agreed to try to settle claims from thousands of former Twitter employees who say they were cheated out of severance pay when the billionaire fired them last year after acquiring the social media platform, according to a memo from a lawyer for the employees seen by Bloomberg News.
“After ten months of pushing in every direction, we were able to bring Twitter to the table,” attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan wrote in the memo to her clients, which was obtained from a former Twitter employee who declined to be identified and disclosed confidential information. . “Twitter agrees to mediate with us in a global effort to resolve all claims we have filed.”
The company, formerly known as Twitter, has been accused in multiple lawsuits of numerous labor and workplace violations, including failing to pay severance to thousands of employees who were laid off late last year following Musk’s $44 billion acquisition. Nearly 2,000 former Twitter employees have resorted to fighting their claims in arbitration, as the company has demanded, but Liss-Riordan has complained in lawsuits that Twitter has not shown up.
X is complying with a court order to mediate, according to a person familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified discussing private information.
According to Liss-Riordan’s memo, private negotiations with a mediator are scheduled for December 1 and 2.
“We are very proud to represent nearly 2,000 former Twitter employees in both individual arbitrations and more than a dozen class action lawsuits,” Liss-Riordan said in a statement Wednesday evening. “We are working hard to recover what they are owed.”
She declined to specifically discuss or comment on the planned mediation.
Spokespeople for X Corp. did not immediately respond to requests for comment sent after regular business hours.
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