New Delhi: Elon Musk-run Twitter has been sued by its workers over its failure to pay bonuses for final yr, regardless of guarantees that the corporate can pay at the very least 50 p.c of the goal quantities. According to the lawsuit filed within the San Francisco federal court docket, the workers alleged that “Twitter refused to pay employees who remained employed by the company in the first quarter of 2023 any bonus”, Bloomberg reported.
The proposed class-action lawsuit on behalf of present and former Twitter workers was filed by Mark Shobinger, former senior director of compensation at Twitter. (Also Read: 8 Start-ups Funded By Virat Kohli)
“Both before and after Musk’s acquisition was completed in October 2022, Twitter’s management continuously promised the company’s employees, including the plaintiff, that their annual bonus for 2022 will be paid under the Bonus Plan,” the lawsuit learn. (Also Read: 8 Cute Animals That Could Easily Kill You)
Twitter pays a money efficiency bonus yearly. After Must took over in October final yr, the corporate executives had mentioned the bonus might be paid.
The micro-blogging platform, which as soon as had a 7,500-strong workforce, has to this point terminated greater than 75 per cent of its workers.
Last week, the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) within the US had sued Twitter for $250 million over a copyright infringement. The lawsuit, filed within the federal court docket within the state of Tennessee on behalf of 17 music publishers, seeks damages and injunctive aid for Twitter’s “wilful copyright infringement”.
“Twitter fuels its business with countless infringing copies of musical compositions, violating publishers’ and others’ exclusive rights under copyright law,” the lawsuit learn.
The lawsuit has an inventory of round 1,700 songs which have been included in a number of copyright notices to Twitter, asking the court docket to penalise the micro-blogging platform as much as $150,000 for every violation.
