Twitter Hit With Multi-Million Dollar Lawsuit

Twitter has been sued by its employees for failing to pay yearly bonuses after Elon Musk’s takeover. Former Twitter senior director of pay Mark Schobinger filed the class action case in San Francisco federal court. The complaint predicts that previous and current employees may be due tens of millions in incentives.

After Musk acquired Twitter in April, numerous workers had concerns about their salary and yearly bonuses, the complaint said. Twitter management regularly informed staff that their 2022 incentives would be 50% of the objective in the months leading up to the merger. After purchase, these assurances were repeated.

Twitter has reportedly not paid workers incentives despite pledges. Schobinger departed Twitter last month, claiming Twitter’s broken promises, including incentives. After Musk’s takeover of Twitter, 80% of the workforce was laid off in a cost-cutting strategy, prompting this lawsuit. Twitter has previously sued for breaking remote work and severance contracts, as well as class action cases on behalf of female and handicapped employees.

Twitter denies breach of contract in the remote work and severance litigation, and the planned class action actions on behalf of female and handicapped employees were first dismissed but then refiled.