Other employees may be in same situation but didn’t take case

There are likely to be more former Irish workers who were treated similarly to the Twitter employee who received a record unfair dismissal case this week, but decided not to take a case, according to an employment lawyer.

Elon Musk’s company was ordered to pay an Irish record unfair dismissal award of €550,131 to a former senior employee at the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) last week.

Former source to pay director Gary Rooney received the record settlement after he was dismissed over failure to respond to the billionaire’s ‘Fork in the Road’ email.

On November 16th, 2022, Mr Musk sent all Twitter staff an email that read: “Going forward, to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we will need to be extremely hardcore. This will mean working long hours at high intensity. Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade.

“If you are sure that you want to be part of the new Twitter, please click yes on the link below….

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