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parties disclosed the deal in a Wednesday court filing asking
for a scheduled Sept. 17 hearing in the case to be postponed.
The San Francisco federal appeals court on Thursday agreed to
postpone the hearing so that both sides could finalize the
settlement agreement.
The terms of the settlement were not disclosed. The proposed
class action lawsuit by former Twitter employees Courtney
McMillan and Ronald Cooper, who said the company failed to pay
them and other fired workers severance they were owed.
Musk took over the social media platform in 2022 and let
thousands of employees go, eliminating entire teams dedicated to
trust and safety, human rights and making the site accessible to
people with disabilities. Other lawsuits, including one filed by
Twitter executives including former CEO Parag Agrawal, are still
pending.
The billionaire's approach to gutting Twitter’s workforce served
as a template for his months-long leadership of President Donald
Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, as it cut
tens of thousands of federal workers earlier this year.
An email announcing a “deferred resignation offer” to federal
workers, promising pay through September without having to work,
was titled “Fork in the Road,” echoing a similar email Musk sent
to the Twitter workforce in 2022.
Musk’s drawn-out legal battles with more than 2,000 former
Twitter workers were also a precursor to the court battles the
Trump administration is now fighting over federal downsizing,
though the circumstances are different.
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