Twitter workers forced to drop class-action suit over severance packages

Twitter Inc. won a ruling forcing laid-off workers fighting the company over their severance packages to pursue their claims in individual arbitration rather than through a class-action lawsuit. 
 

Hundreds of workers who were laid off by Elon Musk after he bought the social media company in October have already filed arbitration claims. 

A San Francisco federal judge ruled Friday that the workers are obligated under their contracts to go through arbitration, in which private judges resolve disputes in closed-door hearings.

An attorney who said she’s filed at least 300 such claims said the process could be costly for Twitter.

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