Outgoing Twitter employees prepare for legal campaign against world’s richest man

Musk has claimed repeatedly that those he laid off will receive three months of severance pay. But the terms of his deal to purchase Twitter obligate him to provide a severance package “no less favourable” than the one promised by its prior leadership, which is the basis for the arbitration claim Lee and Bloom are now bringing forward. — Getty Images/TNS

LOS ANGELES: For months, as the will-they, won’t-they acquisition drama between Elon Musk and Twitter dragged on, Helen-Sage Lee held firm in her belief that the social media company was a workplace worth fighting for.

“We all believed in the product so much that most of us decided to stay to see it through,” Lee, who worked on the platform’s account integrity team, said of the purchase and the job insecurity it introduced for employees. “And I felt assured in doing so because of the severance that HR and legal promised in May, and again in October.”