A week after Elon Musk bought Twitter last fall, half the workforce was laid off. Cuts have continued since then and the workforce has shrunk from around 7,500 to around 2,000 people.
According to Today’s industry, citing Reuters, Twitter was sued on Wednesday by a former employee, Courtney McMillian. According to the lawsuit, Twitter allegedly refused to pay 500 million dollars, equivalent to roughly 5 billion kroner, in promised severance pay to thousands of employees.
McMillian claims that under a 2019 severance plan, most employees were promised two months’ base pay plus one week’s pay for each full year of employment if they were fired. But Twitter paid only one month’s severance pay, and many laid off received nothing at all.
Twitter has previously been sued for, among other things, not having paid out bonuses and other severance pay. Twitter has denied the allegations.