Lawsuit Alleges Twitter Has Not Paid Millions in Employee Bonuses
A lawsuit has been filed against Twitter Inc alleging that it did not pay its employees millions of dollars in bonuses as promised, adding to the growing number of legal cases filed against the social media company since its acquisition by Elon Musk.
Mark Schobinger, who was Twitter’s senior director of compensation and left the company last month, filed the proposed class action in federal court in San Francisco on Tuesday.
Schobinger says that before and after Musk bought Twitter last year, the company promised employees they would get 50% of their target bonuses for 2022. But those payments never materialized, according to the lawsuit, which accuses Twitter of breaching the contract.
Twitter, also known as X Corp, no longer has a media relations office. It responded to a request for comment about the lawsuit with poop emojis.
Schobinger’s attorney, Shannon Liss-Riordan, represents former Twitter employees in several other lawsuits and about 2,000 individual arbitrations stemming from mass layoffs ordered by Musk last year.
In these cases, Twitter is accused of not paying the promised severance pay and targeting the dismissals of female employees and disabled employees, among other things. The company has denied being guilty of wrongdoing.
Many landlords, vendors and consultants have also sued Twitter for unpaid bills, some of which Musk collected when he bought the company.
Twitter is also being sued in Delaware by three former executives, including ex-CEO Parag Agrawal, who say it has failed to reimburse more than $1 million in legal fees they received to respond to requests from state regulators.
