Twitter hit with lawsuit claiming ex-employees owed at least $500M in severance pay

A lawsuit filed Wednesday says Twitter owes at least half a billion dollars in severance pay to the thousands of employees who were laid off when the investor group led by Elon Musk acquired the company last year.

The lawsuit was filed by Courtney McMillian, who oversaw Twitter’s employee benefits programs as its “head of total rewards” before she was let go in January. The proposed class-action lawsuit was filed in a San Francisco-based federal court and seeks at least $500 million i