Ex-Twitter Employees Seek to Compel Platform to Arbitration
More than 2,000 former Twitter employees seek an order compelling Twitter, now X, to arbitrate the employees’ claims (see 2307060033), said their memorandum of points and authorities Thursday (docket 3:23-cv-03301) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco…
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in support of their motion to compel. Despite compelling its former employees to arbitrate their claims against the company, Twitter “has taken every opportunity to prevent many of them from actually pursuing their claims in arbitration,” said the memorandum. The court shouldn’t “countenance this behavior and should enter an immediate order compelling Twitter to arbitrate,” it said. The court also should compel Twitter to pay the arbitration fees it was ordered to pay by Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services and the American Arbitration Association “for those cases to proceed,” it said.