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Musk defeats ex-Twitter staff seeking $500m in severance

A US judge dismissed the case, one of several filed in the aftermath of Mr Musk's takeover of the site.

A US judge has dismissed a case brought by former Twitter staff, who had accused billionaire Elon Musk of unlawfully denying roughly $500m in severance payments owed to workers fired after his takeover of the company. This complaint was filed in 2023 in a federal court in San Francisco by Courtney McMillian, the former "head of total rewards" at the social media site, which Mr Musk renamed X. Mr Musk's team had urged the judge to reject the complaint, saying that America's Employee Retirement Income Security Act did not apply as claimed.

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