{"id":1132268,"date":"2023-07-13T18:08:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T18:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=4dd3f3a83fbf655cb98616fa13ed6c17"},"modified":"2023-07-13T18:08:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T18:08:05","slug":"twitter-refused-to-pay-ex-employees-500-million-in-severance-lawsuit-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/07\/13\/twitter-refused-to-pay-ex-employees-500-million-in-severance-lawsuit-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Refused to Pay Ex-Employees $500 Million in Severance, Lawsuit Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new lawsuit filed against Twitter claims that the company has refused to pay out severance payments after it laid off thousands of workers when right-wing billionaire Elon Musk took over. The proposed class action lawsuit, filed on behalf of former employee Courtney McMillian in a federal district court in California on Wednesday, claims that the company has failed to pay at least $500 million...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/twitter-refused-to-pay-ex-employees-500-million-in-severance-lawsuit-says\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/twitter-refused-to-pay-ex-employees-500-million-in-severance-lawsuit-says\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under Elon Musk, the company has laid off over 6,000 people, or about 80 percent of its staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1459,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043,4116,453,4,16,739],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1459"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1132268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1132269,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132268\/revisions\/1132269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1132268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1132268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1132268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}