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CTOnews.com, Nov. 18 (Reuters)-Musk, the boss of Twitter, is discriminating against disabled workers by asking employees to stop telecommuting and work "long hours under high intensity," according to a new lawsuit.

Dmitry Borodaenko, an engineering manager in California, said Twitter fired him this week because he refused to report to the office and filed a proposed class action lawsuit against the company in federal court in San Francisco on Wednesday.

Borodaenko said Musk recently called on Twitter employees to either return to the office or resign, in violation of the Federal Disability Act (ADA), which requires employers to provide reasonable facilities for disabled workers.

According to the indictment, Borodaenko has a disability that makes him vulnerable to COVID-19 's influence. The lawsuit alleges that many Twitter employees with disabilities were forced to resign because they failed to meet Musk's stringent performance and productivity standards.

In a separate complaint filed with the same court on Wednesday, Twitter was accused of laying off thousands of contract workers without the 60-day notice required by federal law.

Twitter has already faced a proposed class action lawsuit, also in federal court in San Francisco, claiming that it violated the law by abruptly laying off about 3700 people, or half of the company's employees, after Mr Musk took over.

Musk has said that laid-off workers received three months' severance pay. Under federal law, employers can offer workers 60 days' severance pay in lieu of giving notice.

Shannon Liss-Riordan, a lawyer for the plaintiffs in all three outstanding cases, said that since taking over Twitter, Musk had "put the company's workers through great pain and uncertainty in such a short period of time."

CTOnews.com has learned that there are few legal precedents as to whether telecommuting meets the reasonable facilities stipulated by ADA, and the United States Equal Employment opportunity Commission, which enforces the Disability Act, stated in its guidance issued in 2020 that telecommuting can be a reasonable convenience when it does not unduly burden employers.

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