In the spring, a series of layoffs began under the pretext of cost optimization, after which many employees left on their own, but all this time the employer promised to pay bonuses after dismissal, as well as severance. As attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan, who represents the plaintiffs, stated in an interview, the social network owed “tens of millions of dollars” in bonuses to its former employees as of June.
It is clear from the open documents of the Delaware District Court that the flow of applications in this case began in December 2022, with 200 such claims as of January 2023, compared to 2.2 thousand today.
“The influx of applications started around December 2022. <...>Twitter is called a responder. <...>. In early January 2023, Twitter received more than 200 arbitration requests <...>. According to the documents, Twitter has received more than 2,200 individual arbitration requests to date.
Source: Ferra
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