Dublin High Court Rules Vice President Twitter Cannot Be Fired, Here's the Reason

JAKARTA – The Irish Time reports that Sinead McSweeney, Twitter's Ireland-based global vice president of public policy, has received an interim order from the High Court of Dublin to prevent him from being fired. McSweeney claims his work account was locked and did not log into Twitter's Dublin office after not responding to an email Elon Musk sent employees. The email asked workers to answer "yes" to commit to Twitter's "really tough" culture, or leave.

Musk sent out the email shortly after his November 16 takeover of Twitter, and gave employees just over a day to confirm whether they wanted to stay at the company.

If an employee doesn't click "yes" on the form included in the email, Twitter said it would "treat it as resignation", and then provide two months' worth of salary with benefits, along with one month's severance pay.

But McSweeney said he didn't hit "yes". According to The Times, McSweeney never replied to the email because it did not outline Musk's expectations for the employee who decided to stay, and the severance package did not fulfill his "contractual rights." McSweeney later received an email confirming his "voluntary resignation" on November 18.

Meanwhile, Twitter's lawyers reportedly acknowledged that McSweeney wanted to stay at the company and said they would restore access to his account. But The Times reports that McSweeney is still locked up and unable to work.

Judge Brian O'Moore gave McSweeney an injunction Friday, November 25 preventing Twitter from firing him but not reinstating his job or position. The court will review the case next week.

McSweeney isn't the only Twitter executive facing uncertainty about their jobs. After Robin Wheeler, Twitter's former head of ad sales, stepped down earlier this month, Musk convinced him to stay, but eventually fired him anyway.

McSweeney also said he had received "mixed messages" from Musk and that he had fired and rehired employees "without any clear logic".

Musk laid off about half of Twitter's workforce earlier this month before he began asking some employees to return. Earlier this week, The Verge reported that Musk said he was done with layoffs and that Twitter would begin hiring new employees to replace workers who were laid off or left.