JAKARTA - Four former Twitter top executives, including former CEO Parag Agrawal, have sued Elon Musk for more than 128 million US dollars (Rp2 trillion) in unpaid severance pay. The lawsuit was filed on Monday, March 4.
The lawsuit, filed in a federal court in San Francisco, which is the latest case in a series of legal challenges faced by the billionaire after he acquired the social media company in October 2022 and later changed its name to X.
Other plaintiffs Plaintiff are Ned Segal, former chief financial officer of Twitter; Vijaya Gadde, former chief legal officer; and Sean Edgett, former general couple.
Minutes after Musk took over Twitter, the former executive said they were fired and that Musk mistakenly accused them of committing a foul and forced them out of Twitter after they sued the billionaire for trying to withdraw his offer to buy the company.
Musk then refused to pay severance pay to the executives he had promised years before he acquired Twitter, according to the lawsuit. The plaintiffs said they each had the right to a one-year salary and hundreds of thousands of stock options.
"This is Musk's modus operandi: to save money he owes to others, and force them to sue him," the former executive said in the lawsuit.
X is already facing a pair of class actions demands claiming the company owes it to ordinary workers fired after Musk's acquisition of at least $500 million in severance pay, and a third lawsuit by six senior former managers who made similar claims. X has denied wrongdoing.
The company has also been sued before for failing to pay former public relations firms, building owners, vendors, and their consultants.
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