Fri, 22 Aug 2025

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 Elon Musk and X reach settlement with axed Twitter workers

Ex-Twitter staff sued the platform after some 6,000 employees were sacked in 2022.

* Billionaire Elon Musk and his company X have reached a tentative settlement with former employees who sued for $500m in severance pay
* 6,000 staff were sacked as part of a cost-cutting measure after Musk took over the company in 2022
* The lawsuit claimed that workers were wrongly denied benefits under the company's severance plan and only received at most one month's worth of pay
* Details of the agreement are not yet public and will require court approval
* The settlement was reported in a joint court filing by both sides, requesting a postponement of an upcoming hearing to allow time to settle paperwork.
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