Twitter must tell fired workers about severance lawsuit, judge rules

Twitter Inc. must tell departing employees there’s an active lawsuit against the social media company over severance pay and benefits, a federal judge ruled.

Twitter has been requiring employees who accept a severance package that includes a month of base pay to sign a waiver agreeing not to join lawsuits against the company. The agreement doesn’t mention the existence of a suit filed just before hundreds of people were fired in early November following Elon Musk’s takeover.

“Twitter is directed to provide notice of the pendency of this case before asking an employee to release his or her legal claims,” US District Judge James Donato said in Wednesday’s order.