A special treat for Elon: 2,200 cases for not paying severance
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X is not, in fact, gonna give it to ya.

Elon Musk’s alleged penchant for not paying bills is catching up with him. In the wake of numerous lawsuits claiming the world’s richest man failed to pay severance owed to many of the 6,000 employees he fired after acquiring Twitter. On Monday, CNBC reported that the tech company now known as X is facing some 2,200 arbitration cases filed by ex-employees, which come with $3.5 million in required fees—an amount that doesn’t even include the actual severance owed to those Musk let go.

In October, shortly after taking Twitter’s reins, Musk laid off more than half of its employees, promising most at least two months’ salary plus a week’s pay for every year they’d worked at the firm. Thousands claim that they haven’t received a single dime, and ex-employees have since filed several lawsuits seeking their promised benefits.

  • @Armok_the_bunnyEnglish
    26•1 year ago

    They aren’t saying he pays his bills, they’re saying there are effectively no consequences for him personally every time he does it. He’s not the one footing the bill for these Xitter lawsuits, it’s his company.

    • @kbotcEnglish
      4•1 year ago

      He privately owns Twitter, so he can do whatever he wants with it.

      The issue is that he took out billions of dollars in Tesla stock loans to cover the Twitter sale, so if Twitter fails and the people that gave him cash ask for the cash back: he has to hand over his collateral, which is largely his controlling stake in Tesla.

    • Chozo
      -3•1 year ago

      Yes, but he’s also the sole owner of the company. They went private after the acquisition, so there are no more shareholders. It’s his company now, so he is the one directly responsible for it at this point.

      If you’re the sole owner of a taco truck and you crash into an orphanage with it, you are responsible, not the LLC you registered.

      • @[email protected]English
        10•1 year ago

        LLC literally means Limited Liability Company.

        The owners of the LLC are protected from some or all liability for acts and debts of the LLC, depending on state shield laws.

        • Flying Squid
          6•1 year ago

          When it comes into crashing into an orphanage, that’s definitely some and not all.