Twitter Disability Employee Elon Musk For Requiring Work In Office

Twitter has been sued by employees with disabilities. (photo: dock. Twitter)

JAKARTA - Elon Musk's order, as the owner of Twitter, asks employees to stop working remotely or at home and start working "high-intensity hours" in the office is considered to have discriminated against workers with disabilities. This emerged in a new lawsuit from a number of employees.

Dmitry Borodaenko, a California-based engineering manager who said Twitter had locked him out this week when he refused to report to the office, is now filing a class action lawsuit against the company in San Francisco federal court on Wednesday, November 16.

Borodeenko said Musk's recent call to Twitter employees to return to the office or stop, had violated the United States (ADA) Disability Act, requiring employers to offer reasonable accommodation to workers with disabilities.

According to the lawsuit filed, Borodaenko has a flaw that makes him vulnerable to COVID-19.

The lawsuit says many Twitter employees with disabilities have been forced to resign because they cannot meet Musk's performance and productivity standards.

In a separate lawsuit filed in the same court on Wednesday, Twitter was accused of dismissing thousands of contract workers without providing a 60-day notification required by federal law.

Previously, Twitter had faced a proposed class action lawsuit, also in San Francisco federal court, which claimed to have violated the law by abruptly dismissing about 3,700 employees, or half of the company's workforce, after Musk took over Twitter.

Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Reuters on Thursday. Musk said workers who were laid off for three months were offered severance pay. Under federal law, employers can provide workers with 60 days of severance pay in lieu of layoff notices.

Shannon LIss-Riordan, the plaintiff's attorney in all three pending cases, said that since taking over Twitter, Musk "has left Twitter workers experiencing a lot of pain and uncertainty in such a short time."