{"id":13156,"date":"2023-07-07T21:55:24","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T19:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2023\/07\/07\/twitter-ex-employees-sue-the-company-again-over-legal-arbitration\/"},"modified":"2023-07-07T22:01:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T20:01:43","slug":"twitter-ex-employees-sue-the-company-again-over-legal-arbitration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2023\/07\/07\/twitter-ex-employees-sue-the-company-again-over-legal-arbitration\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter ex-employees sue the company again over legal arbitration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some former Twitter employees have filed a lawsuit against the company over legal arbitration costs. They expect the social media platform to cover the costs of arbitration claims. As you might expect, Twitter has no intention to do so.<br \/>\nIn an interview with BBC earlier this year, Elon Musk claimed he had laid off nearly 80% of Twitter staff weeks after taking over the company. The billionaire claims Twitter is now working more efficiently with much fewer employees. However, the laid-off Twitter staff first started a legal battle against their former employer over unpaid severance payments.<br \/>\nTheir previous class-action lawsuit was rejected due to a provision in their contract. This time, they are suing the company over legal arbitration costs. The plaintiffs filed their lawsuit on July 3rd in the Northern District of California. Both parties must refer to JAMS, a legal company focused on mediation and arbitration.<br \/>\nTwitter former employees sue the company for arbitration costs<br \/>\nAccording to JAMS\u2019s fee schedule, a two-party arbitration costs $2,000, and Twitter must pay the rest. As expected, Twitter won\u2019t lose a penny easily. The social media company is asking JAMS to split the bill evenly between them and the former employee who filed their lawsuits outside California. This request, however, violates JAMS\u2019s pre-conditional minimum standards of procedural fairness, and the agency declined it.<br \/>\nTwitter claims it never abided by that condition outside of California. In response, JAMS said it would close the file as they \u201cwill not proceed with cases that we have determined fall under our Employment Minimum Standards if Respondent will not abide by those standards.\u201d<br \/>\nTwitter\u2019s former employees are now in a dilemma. If they want to continue with the case, they should cover the JAMS fees, which could cost them $300 per hour to more than $15,000 per day.<br \/>\nShannon Liss-Riordan, one of the employees\u2019 lawyers, told the outlet, \u201cThe reason we had to file nearly 2,000 individual arbitration demands is because Twitter forced us to \u2014 by moving to compel arbitration. Now that it has made its bed, it doesn\u2019t want to lie in it.\u201d<br \/>\nThe post Twitter ex-employees sue the company again over legal arbitration appeared first on Android Headlines.&#013;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Twitter-Logo-3-AH-1.jpg\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\">&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ndroidheadlines.com&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some former Twitter employees have filed a lawsuit against the company over legal arbitration costs. 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