X, Former Twitter Employees Seek to Stay Discrimination Action
Seven former Twitter employees and X, formerly Twitter, filed a joint stipulation (docket 4:23-cv-04016) Tuesday in U.S. District Court for Northern California in Oakland to stay a discrimination case. They said their time and resources would be best served by…
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including their pending action within the scope of mediation ordered by the U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco in Eitan Adler v. Twitter, Inc. and X Corp. (docket 3:23-cv-01788). Plaintiffs Nhu Weinberg, Samantha Gongora, Julia Steele, Omolade Ogunsanya, Nanci Sills, Krista Bessinger and Ikuhiro Ihara sued X in August for discrimination and/or violations of the Family and Medical Leave Act (see 2308100009). The plaintiffs all filed administrative charges of discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and received right to sue letters to pursue the claims in court. The plaintiffs seek for themselves and the class declaratory relief and the reinstatement of female, Black and older employees who wish to return to their jobs, plus employees terminated in violation of the FMLA. Plaintiffs’ claims in Adler v. Twitter includes violations of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) and California’s WARN Act, plus state labor codes.