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Musk ordered to pay X employee £470,000 for unfair dismissal

Musk ordered to pay X employee £470,000 for unfair dismissal



Gary Rooney was told he had resigned voluntarily by not replying to the billionaire’s email about Twitter 2.0Twitter has been ordered to pay a record fine of more than €550,000 (£470,000) to a former senior employee at its European headquarters in Ireland, after it was found to have dismissed him unfairly when he failed to respond to an email from Elon Musk calling on staff to be “extremely hardcore”.When Musk paid $44bn in October 2022 for the social media platform, which he rebranded the following year as X, Gary Rooney was a director of “source-to-pay”, a procurement role, in Twitter International’s Dublin office. Continue reading…



Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/13/musk-ordered-to-pay-x-employee-470000-for-unfair-dismissal

Author : Rob Davies and Gordon Deegan

Publish date : 2024-08-13 15:46:50

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