Compensation not paid correctly
Fired Twitter executive demands $500 million
07/13/2023 12:41 am
The story of Twitter and its fired employees is richer by a chapter. A former executive is suing the company for allegedly not adhering to the agreed severance plan. She wants half a billion dollars in damages.
In the ongoing dispute with ex-employees over their layoffs, Twitter has been faced with a new lawsuit worth at least half a billion dollars. Former short message service manager Courtney McMillian, who oversaw compensation programs, filed the lawsuit in federal court in San Francisco.
In a 2019 severance plan, Twitter promised most employees who were fired two months’ base salary plus one week’s salary for each full year of service. Executives like McMillian were promised six months of 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.