Problems don’t seem to come to an end for Elon Musk’s Twitter as Ex-Twitter employees have yet again sued the company and this time for allegedly not paying the expected cost of legal arbitration. The class-action lawsuit, filed in the Northern District of California, claimed, "Twitter has refused to engage in arbitration -- despite having compelled employees to arbitrate their claims".
According to Reuters, Twitter Inc was sued earlier this week for allegedly refusing to proceed with around 900 arbitration cases filed by former -employees who were either laid off or quit the company after Elon Musk acquired the social media platform last year.
Since Tesla CEO Elon Musk acquired Twitter in October last year, the company has been accused of a myriad of illegal acts, including failure to pay retrenched employees promised severance payments, discriminating against employees based on sex, race, age, and disability, failing to pay promised bonuses, breaching the WARN Act and FMLA, and other violations.
The new lawsuit said: "Approximately 2,000 of Twitter's former employees have attempted to pursue arbitration claims against the company, following Twitter's successfully moving to compel arbitration in several federal class action cases in court against it."
The complaint says that the arbitration agreements mandate ex-employees to pay a nominal filing fee to launch claims with the Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services (JAMS), but after that, the micro-blogging platform Twitter has to pay "all other arbitration fees".
The latest lawsuit is part of a batch of litigation between Twitter and several thousands of employees who were laid off when Musk took over last year.
Twitter won a legal battle earlier this year that pushed thousands of laid-off employees into arbitration. Twitter is also facing a lawsuit for allegedly failing to pay for services for offices in London, Dublin, Sydney and Singapore.
Twitter's new boss Linda Yaccarino has reportedly settled the strained ties with Google Cloud over non-payments of its bills before the June 30 contract deadline.
In a separate development, today Meta owner, Mark Zuckerberg marked his return to Twitter after more than a decade and dropped a meme.
Zuckerberg’s return to the micro-blogging site came after Facebook parent Meta unveiled 'Threads' a new app that is said to be designed to directly compete with Musk's Twitter.