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Remember when Elon Musk ordered Twitter staff two years ago to “click yes” in an email to promise to work in “extremely hardcore” mode or risk losing their jobs? One of those employees who didn’t click “yes” just won a major ruling, according to the Irish news serviceIreland’s Workplace Relations Commission ruled that Gary Rooney , a former senior executive for the company known then as Twitter , was unfairly terminated when he refused to agree to Musk’s email ultimatum in 2022 after nine years...
WRC adjudication officer Michael MacNamee singled out Musk’s requirement to click “yes” as unfair because refusing to do so “was not capable of constituting an act of resignation.” Therefore, the company had no grounds to justify Rooney’s termination, according to the news report.in November of 2022 just a month after taking over the social media company issuing an ultimatum of commitment.
MacNamee ruled that Musk’s 24-hour deadline was not a “reasonable notice” for his staffers to consider the fate of their jobs. He also said no employee “could possibly be faulted for refusing to be compelled to give an open-ended unqualified assent to any of the proposals.” Twitter’s HR department confirmed that Rooney’s termination was due to his decision not to click the email link despite not knowing about a possible severance or the implications of staying with the company.
Rooney is far from the last of Musk’s former employees to take their former employer to court either for his behavior or what they deemed to be an unjust termination. A lawsuit filed earlier this year by
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