A group of laid off Twitter employees finally got paltry severance agreements. Now they must decide whether to sign, or pursue legal action against Elon Musk's company.
One person who received an agreement said they'd decided not to sign, and instead will participate in one of the several lawsuits already filed or in the works related to Musk's alleged violations of the merger agreement regarding employee benefits and severance. Scores of other affected employees have already signed on to participate in legal actions. The person noted that, had the agreements come sooner, perhaps they and other people would have been more inclined to sign.
Still, two people familiar with Twitter's actions said the site is legitimate and noted that this will be the way all severance or separation agreements will be distributed by Twitter. The website also uses Twitter's official blue and white bird logo and the official separation agreements are said to show Musk's signature.
As for the separation agreements, they appear to be mostly boilerplate, offering one month of pay to laid off employees as severance. On November 4, Muskthat"everyone exited" was offered 3 months of severance, saying that was 50% more than legally required. The tech billionaire may have been conflating periods of"non-working" employment that later saw thousands of workers continue to be paid since November, while they waited for severance.
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