Ex-Twitter employees are suing Musk’s social media business saying the company not only failed to pay them promised severance, but then delayed their arbitration cases by failing to pay filing fees.

X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, is facing 2,200 arbitration cases that ex-employees filed after Elon Musk took over the company, slashed headcount, and made other sweeping changes there. The filing fees alone for that volume of cases could amount to $3.5 million.

The arbitration numbers were revealed in a new filing out Monday as part of a lawsuit in a Delaware district court. The case is Chris Woodfield v. Twitter, X Corp. and Elon Musk (No. 1:23-cv-780-CFC).

As CNBC has previously reported, many large corporations require workers to sign an arbitration agreement upon employment wherever it is legal to do so. This means to speak freely in court, where their speech can become part of a public record, workers would first need to get an exemption from a judge.

  • deconstruct@lemm.eeOPEnglish
    413·
    2 years ago

    Yes, but it’s about a major tech company, so maybe it fits? NBC filed it in their ‘Tech News’ section.

    • WarmSoda@lemm.eeEnglish
      41·
      2 years ago

      Musk isn’t going to give you the time of day. You don’t need to defend his website/app.

    • WarmSoda@lemm.eeEnglish
      516·
      2 years ago

      It’s a social media company, not a tech company.
      Unless you have a magic list of technology the company is releasing.

      • ChapulinColorado@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        2 years ago

        They released Twitter Bootstrap a while ago for “HTML, CSS, and Javascript for popular user interface components and interactions”, to this day, it is hard going to a website that doesn’t integrate in some way it at least once a day. The source code for lemmy.world’s CSS says it is using Bootstrap for example:

        https://lemmy.world/css/themes/litely.css

      • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        2 years ago

        Does Twitter make the content or do they serve content via webservers and applications? Sounds like technology to me.

        • WarmSoda@lemm.eeEnglish
          13·
          2 years ago

          Do buses pick you up at the corner or do you get on the bus? Sounds like technology to me.

          A bus is an automobile.
          Twitter is a website.

            • WarmSoda@lemm.eeEnglish
              21·
              2 years ago

              Every tool humanity has ever created is technology
              Starting with hammers, axes, arrows, the wheel etc

              • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                2 years ago

                That you are correct:

                Technology is the application of scientific knowledge to the practical aims of human life or, as it is sometimes phrased, to the change and manipulation of the human environment.

                According to Britannica.

    • Sethayy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      719·
      2 years ago

      I think that’s just more of a rollover from anything on the internet being labeled as ‘tech’, but like nowadays if the president sends a tweet its really not that notable of news, technologically. We could also start reporting every time a text is sent if we really wanted