Twitter violated contract by failing to pay millions in bonuses, US judge rules

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Reuters

December 22, 2023 10:41 PM EST


WASHINGTON, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Twitter violated contracts by failing to pay millions of dollars in bonuses that the social media company, now called X Corp, had promised its employees, a federal judge ruled on Friday.

Mark Schobinger, who was Twitter's senior director of compensation before leaving Elon Musk's company in May, sued Twitter in June, claiming breach of contract. Schobinger's suit alleged that before and after billionaire Musk bought Twitter last year, it promised employees 50% of their 2022 target bonuses but never made those payments.

In denying Twitter's motion to dismiss the case, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria ruled that Schobinger plausibly stated a breach of contract claim under California law and he was covered by a bonus plan. "Once Schobinger did what Twitter asked, Twitter's offer to pay him a bonus in return became a binding contract under California law. And by allegedly refusing to pay Schobinger his promised bonus, Twitter violated that contract," the judge wrote.

X no longer has a media relations office. The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment to its X account outside business hours.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/legal/twitter-violated-contract-by-failing-pay-millions-bonuses-us-judge-rules-2023-12-23/

[Roy Rolling]

1. Transparency, Nazi-Style

“X no longer has a media relations office. The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment”

Lecture me some more, Elmo, about how to not restrict information from the public citizen or customer. Elmo doesn’t know how to do transparency right.

[live love laugh]

2. Millions is nothing to Musk,

[70sEraVet]

7. Youre right, of course. But the wealthiest people always seem ....

ready to screw over other people over even tiny amounts of money. Its in their nature.

[SouthernDem4ever]

9. true

[Mr.Bill]

15. It's how they got wealthy. n/t

[ShazzieB]

19. And that makes his failing to pay pomised bonuses to his employees all the more egregious.

It's not like he couldn't afford it!

[samnsara]

3. emo strikes again

[bucolic_frolic]

4. NumbNutz has everything running on auto-pilot

Mechanical money dripping hierarchies to make Elmo RICH!

[Voltaire2]

5. Libertarians claim that we only need contract law

to ‘regulate’ economic activity, and then proceed to ignore contracts and use their wealth to obstruct that legal process.

[lonely bird]

14. Ah, libertarianism American-style

The philosophy of a spoiled 4 year old.

[moniss]

6. Merry Xmas

Eloon!!!!!

[Zambero]

8. Being a bad Nazi, again!

Although there has never been a "good" one.

[Historic NY]

11. Dead is good.

[ShazzieB]

20. There have never been "good" Nazis, but there have been many competent and effective ones.

Eloon's not just evil. He's so incompetent that he can't even be evil effectively!

[Historic NY]

10. Scrooge in charge is going to enroll them in the jelly of the month club. Sheesh

[republianmushroom]

12. What is it about these billionaires not paying the obligations ?

[keopeli]

13. How do you think they became billionaires?

[LiberalFighter]

16. Destroy X

[LetMyPeopleVote]

17. Musk does not believe in honoring contracts

[ShazzieB]

21. Of course not.

He's like Trump that way.

[Obvious85]

18. Elon needs to GO BACK TO HIS COUNTRY

he is the worst kind of immigrant

[riversedge]

22. "The lawsuits make a range of claims, including that X discriminated against older employees, women and workers with dis

..........X has been hit with numerous lawsuits by former employees and executives since Musk bought the company and culled more than half of its workforce.

The lawsuits make a range of claims, including that X discriminated against older employees, women and workers with disabilities, and failed to give advance notice of mass layoffs. The company denies wrongdoing.


https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/twitter-violated-contract-pay-millions-bonuses-us-judge-rules-rcna131034?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&taid=6587434e4a445e0001592f9a&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

[spike jones]

23. Taylor Swift gave her touring crew a total 55 million in bonus. n/t

[Ms. Toad]

24. Crappy reporting.

If the later part of the article is correct, what the judge ruled was that Schobinger gets a chance to prove his case in a full trial (the case survived a motion to end the trial early because the claims were too flimsy) - not that he had already proven it.

It is a step toward proving it - but Schobinger still has to make his case before it is over.