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Twitter/X owner Elon Musk has won a lawsuit fired Twitter employee Courtney McMillian brought against Musk and the company last year.
The suit alleged that 6,000 fired Twitter staff were owed $500 million or more in collective severance pay. The judge dismissed the lawsuit Tuesday, writing that the claims, made under US ERISA law, did not apply to the case. Therefore, no such payments were applicable. ERISA, or the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, is a federal law that sets minimum requirements for health and retirement plans.
McMillian, who previously oversaw Twitter’s employee benefits programs as its Head of People Experience, had claimed that Musk and X didn’t adequately inform staff about their severance plan changes and didn’t adhere to the severance plan set up before Musk bought Twitter. McMillian and other laid-off staff reportedly only received one month’s severance pay before being forced out in November 2022 after Musk’s takeover.
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