Originally published at: Twitter must pay €550,000 to former Irish employee
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Yeah, trying to fire someone via a EULA isn’t going to fly in a place where they actually respect labour rights.
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Largest settlement of the sort in Irish history…pretty hardcore outcome.
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Now Gary Rooney can chill at home in goblin mode.
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As I recall, Musk also abruptly demanded that employees immediately cease remote work and report to offices. He really does regard them as his little pawns, to be manipulated according to his current whims.
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I hope the former employee gets their money but it seems like the sort of thing that Musk will just not pay and carry on ignoring the law
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Yeah, my initial response was, Yet another bill for Elno to ignore? But I wonder what happens if he does? I suspect the decision here has some teeth behind it, and as long as Twitter is doing business in Ireland, there’s some enforcement mechanisms. (And I don’t think Twitter will leave Ireland any time soon, as I’m guessing that’s their tax-avoiding gateway to Europe.)
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This is objectively untrue. Yes, there is at-will employment which is pretty commonplace, but there are many reasons you can’t fire someone such as discrimination, retaliation, or workers’ compensation. If you’re in a union or a contract worker there may be further termination procedures in place.
That isn’t to say state/federal labor laws aren’t utter shit, but the statement about firing for any reason needs a big asterisk next to it.
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It’s the one stop shop for GDPR etc which is a bigger deal as Twitter is legit a loss making enterprise even before some hardcore goblin ninja tax accountants come to play.
This isn’t a court, it’s the Workplace Relations Commission which is intended as a cheap alternative to courts with a limited power of payout. Usually it’s the few thousand a worker is due and that’s all. This guy just happened to be rich (but apparently not rich enough to go to the High Court to get much, much more money).
I would bet, were I a betting person, that Twitter will spend more than half a million on lawyers trying to get out of this. And the lawyers will get paid.
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Assuming for a moment that Xitter doesn’t pay, having a half-million dollar settlement against them is not nothing. I’m neither a legal or a tax expert, but I assume there is a way to convert a settlement like that into a smaller but still significant amount of money, akin to selling a debt to a debt collector, but fancy, like for rich people.
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If you have a settlement and you need cash now…
call …
You should get the jingle 
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He could get a tax lien on their Jack-like properties? Accept ad payments from the mom 'n pop goblin advertisers from Swift EU corruption interceptions of X Ad Receivables? Just 2 million Euro in ads instead?
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I suppose that some foreclosure action is going to happen aimed at the society.
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I’m starting to think that the only thing old Elon is a genius about is self ownage!
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