X, formerly Twitter, faces 2,200 arbitration cases and filing fees over $3 million

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨deconstruct@lemm.ee⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/x-formerly-twitter-faces-2200-arbitration-cases-filing-fees-3-million-rcna102308

X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, is facing 2,200 arbitration cases that ex-employees filed after Elon Musk took over the company, slashed headcount, and made other sweeping changes there. The filing fees alone for that volume of cases could amount to $3.5 million.

The arbitration numbers were revealed in a new filing out Monday as part of a lawsuit in a Delaware district court. The case is Chris Woodfield v. Twitter, X Corp. and Elon Musk (No. 1:23-cv-780-CFC).

As CNBC has previously reported, many large corporations require workers to sign an arbitration agreement upon employment wherever it is legal to do so. This means to speak freely in court, where their speech can become part of a public record, workers would first need to get an exemption from a judge.

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radix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Musk is killing it!

(“it” being whatever shred of reputation he had left before the last year or so)

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Sethayy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Little bit more legality/politics than technology no?

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- deconstruct@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yes, but it’s about a major tech company, so maybe it fits? NBC filed it in their ‘Tech News’ section.
  
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  - Sethayy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I think that’s just more of a rollover from anything on the internet being labeled as ‘tech’, but like nowadays if the president sends a tweet its really not that notable of news, technologically. We could also start reporting every time a text is sent if we really wanted
    
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- GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  You could’ve just downvoted and moved on 🙄
  
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autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:

X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, is facing 2,200 arbitration cases that ex-employees filed after Elon Musk took over the company, slashed headcount, and made other sweeping changes there.

Woodfield, a former senior staff network engineer who had worked at Twitter’s Seattle office, alleges in his suit that Musk’s Twitter (now known as X) had promised then failed to pay his severance, and later delayed alternative dispute resolution by failing to pay the necessary fees required for him to move ahead in the JAMS arbitration system.

The company’s lawyers have argued that it did not mandate employees to resolve any issues in arbitration, so it should not be on the hook for the larger portion of the filing fees.

As CNBC has previously reported, many large corporations require workers to sign an arbitration agreement upon employment wherever it is legal to do so.

Critics view arbitration as a secretive system that makes it harder for employees and prospective hires to find out how companies treat their workers, and what happened to people in previous related cases.

The Woodfield case against Musk’s X Corp. resembles another proposed class action filed in a San Francisco federal court.

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bobman@unilem.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
$3 million is to $1 billion like $3 is to $1000.

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