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CTOnews.com, July 19 (Xinhua) Twitter suffered its second class action lawsuit this month on Tuesday, local time. The plaintiffs allege that Twitter owed at least $500m in severance payments to former employees (CTOnews.com Note: currently about 3.59 billion yuan).

Chris Woodfield, a former senior engineer of Twitter, filed a class action lawsuit in federal court in Delaware, alleging that the company had laid off its older employees. This statement does not appear in other outstanding cases.

Tuyuan Pexels Woodfield, who used to work for Twitter in Seattle, said the company repeatedly told employees that if they were laid off, they would receive two months' salary and other compensation, but he and other employees did not receive the money.

In the lawsuit, he also accused Twitter of violating the agreement and fraud, saying he was laid off mainly because of his age.

Tuyuan Pexels Musk took over Twitter in October last year, then slashed staff and cut costs aggressively, more than half of its employees were laid off, and Twitter has eliminated its public relations department.

Twitter only automatically responded to email inquiries with a poop expression, but the company had previously stressed in response to other lawsuits that "laid-off employees have been fully compensated."

It is worth mentioning that there was a similar lawsuit in California last year, when the plaintiff claimed that Twitter owed more than $500m in severance pay.

Twitter has yet to respond to that lawsuit, which alleges that the company violated a federal law governing employee benefit programs and failed to comply with the terms of the severance plan previously set by Musk.

According to the indictment, Woodfield signed an agreement to arbitrate work-related legal disputes, requiring Twitter to pay initial fees to allow individual cases to proceed.

He said arbitration was filed against Twitter earlier this year. However, Woodfield claimed that Twitter refused to pay the costs of his case, preventing it from proceeding. In fact, the claim was made by hundreds of former employees in a separate case, while Twitter said those employees did not submit the necessary documents.

Twitter is also accused of unfairly laying off women and people with disabilities in several separate lawsuits, without prior notice of layoffs and failing to pay promised bonuses to remaining employees, although the company denies the allegations.

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