A judge has ruled fired Twitter workers suing over losing their jobs have to pursue their complaints in individual cases rather than a class-action suit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hundreds of employees who were let go after Elon Musk purchased the social media giant<\/a><\/strong> in October have already lodged arbitration claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, a federal judge in San Francisco ruled Friday that five workers who sued in early November are obliged by their contracts<\/a><\/strong> to undergo arbitration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n READ MORE: ELON MUSK CONSIDERS SELLING TWITTER USER NAMES TO INCREASE REVENUE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This means the cases will be carried out in such a way that private judges settle disputes in closed-door hearings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n US District Judge James Donato said he’ll decide later ways to handle complaints from workers who choose not to participate in the arbitration agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An attorney<\/a><\/strong> who said she\u2019s filed 500 such cases on behalf of workers noted the process could be expensive for Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Need Career Advice?<\/strong> Get employment skills advice at all levels of your career<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n However, she accuses the company of underpaying employees on severance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lawyer Shannon Liss-Riordan said: \u201cInsisting that workers file claims one by one has backfired for many companies our firm has taken on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThese companies think they can make employees just go away and not assert their rights by using arbitration clauses, but we have made them sorry about what they wished for.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Source: <\/strong>Bloomberg<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow us on YouTube<\/strong><\/a>, Twitter<\/strong><\/a>, LinkedIn<\/strong><\/a>, and Facebook<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Twitter gained a judgment that requires fired workers suing over their termination to pursue their complaints in individual arbitration than a class-action suit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2456,1065,1372],"tags":[686,604,329],"class_list":["post-34860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-twitter-news","category-us-business-news","category-us-employment-news","tag-elon-musk","tag-lawsuit","tag-twitter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}