Record payout ordered after Twitter offered €22,834 severance to senior Irish Twitter staffer who was deemed by company to have resigned
Failure to respond to Elon Musk email could not constitute a decision by Twitter executive to resign, the Workplace Relations Commission ruled. Photograph: Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) Twitter has been ordered to pay €550,000 compensation to a former senior executive in its Irish-based operations in what is a record award by the Workplace Relations Commission in an unfair dismissal case.
Mr Musk did not give evidence, despite the complainant Gary Rooney’s request for the WRC to use its powers to compel him to attend as a witness. Twitter’s senior director of human resources Lauren Wegman told the WRC the “Fork in the Road” email was sent to 270 employees in Ireland, of whom 235 had clicked “yes”. Ms Wegman said the remuneration and duties of these staff had been unchanged.
However, the company maintained that Mr Rooney had made a conscious decision to not click “yes” in response to Mr Musk’s “clear and straightforward” email when he knew that by doing so he was resigning his role. Mr MacNamee said the dismissal was unfair due to the absence of any substantial grounds to justify termination of Mr Rooney’s employment. He also found that Mr Rooney had not caused or contributed to his dismissal by failing to click “yes”.
Twitter denied that Mr Rooney had been dismissed and claimed he should be found 100 per cent responsible for his loss by failing to click “yes” to Mr Musk’s email.
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