{"id":19861,"date":"2025-08-22T17:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T15:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/22\/elon-musk-and-x-reach-tentative-settlement-with-laid-off-twitter-employees\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T17:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T15:38:07","slug":"elon-musk-and-x-reach-tentative-settlement-with-laid-off-twitter-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/22\/elon-musk-and-x-reach-tentative-settlement-with-laid-off-twitter-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk and X reach tentative settlement with laid-off Twitter employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-workers said Musk failed to honor severance plan when he fired them after acquiring social media platform in 2022<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a> and his social media platform, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/twitter\">X<\/a>, reached a tentative settlement on Wednesday with former Twitter employees after a years-long legal battle over severance pay. Former staff had sought $500m in a proposed class action suit against the billionaire.<\/p>\n<p>A court filing released on Wednesday stated that both parties had reached a settlement agreement in principle and requested that a scheduled 17 September hearing in the case be postponed while they worked to finalize a deal. The filing did not disclose any details of the tentative agreement and it is unclear what level of compensation that former employees may receive.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/aug\/22\/elon-musk-x-settlement-twitter-employees\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/091f168255b914cb3607b543dfde2fbc8dd296d1\/684_0_6835_5468\/master\/6835.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=bc07ad9821d83d0012b7b431314a2f5e\" title=\"Elon Musk and X reach tentative settlement with laid-off Twitter employees\" \/>Ex-workers said Musk failed to honor severance plan when he fired them after acquiring social media platform in 2022<br \/>\nElon Musk and his social media platform, X, reached a tentative settlement on Wednesday with former Twitter employees after a years-long legal battle over severance pay. Former staff had sought $500m in a proposed class action suit against the billionaire.<br \/>\nA court filing released on Wednesday stated that both parties had reached a settlement agreement in principle and requested that a scheduled 17 September hearing in the case be postponed while they worked to finalize a deal. The filing did not disclose any details of the tentative agreement and it is unclear what level of compensation that former employees may receive. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-workers said Musk failed to honor severance plan when he fired them after acquiring social media platform in 2022 Elon Musk and his social media platform, X, reached a tentative settlement on Wednesday with former Twitter employees after a years-long legal battle over severance pay. Former staff had sought $500m in a proposed class action &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/22\/elon-musk-and-x-reach-tentative-settlement-with-laid-off-twitter-employees\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Elon Musk and X reach tentative settlement with laid-off Twitter employees<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19861"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}