Several laid-off Twitter employees were informed by a recent ruling in their proposed class action lawsuit that they must pursue their claims via individual arbitration instead. The lawsuit claims that the employees were not adequately notified of the layoff after Elon Musk purchased Twitter. The lawsuit further alleges they did not receive their entire severance package and some claim sex or disability discrimination.

Three former employees allege they opted out of the company’s arbitration agreement. Therefore, the court left the option open for a potential class action lawsuit for those that opted out.


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Twitter announced a $809.5 million settlement in a shareholder class action. The class action covers investors who purchased the stock from February 6, 2015 to July 28, 2015.

In 2016, shareholders alleged that Twitter artificially inflated its stock price in a class action lawsuit. The suit claims Twitter mislead the shareholders about user engagement by discounting reporting “timeline views” in 2014 and tried to downplay declining user engagements by modifying their user metrics. In turn, the suit alleges these actions caused the stock price inflation.


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