Twitter accused by fired workers of sabotaging severance faceoff

After Twitter Inc. forced workers laid off during a mass purge by Elon Musk to go through private arbitration to argue they were cheated of severance pay, the company is making it impossible for the former employees to meet its demands, according to their lawyer.

The social media platform last month won a ruling requiring workers who had signed arbitration agreements to resolve their grievances in closed-door hearings overseen by private judges instead of through a class-action lawsuit in open court.

But now Twitter is arguing it won’t participate in the arbitrations if the workers didn’t produce their own signed agreements, their attorney, Shannon Liss-Riordan, said in a court filing.