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Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>Billionaire Elon Musk and his social media firm X have reached a tentative settlement with former employees who had sued for $500m (\u00a3373m) in severance pay.<\/b><\/p>\n

The parties reported the deal in a court filing on Wednesday, jointly requesting the US appeals court in San Francisco to postpone an upcoming hearing to allow time to settle the paperwork.<\/p>\n

Some workers sued the company over their terminations and severance packages, after some 6,000 staff – more than half its workforce – were sacked as part of a cost-cutting measure after Musk took over the company in 2022.<\/p>\n

The BBC has contacted X – formerly called Twitter – and the lawyers representing the employees for comment.<\/p>\n

“The parties have reached a settlement agreement in principle and began negotiating the terms of a long form settlement agreement,” according to court documents filed by both sides, seen by the BBC.<\/p>\n

Details of the agreement are not yet public and will require the courts’ approval.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit, led by former Twitter employee Courtney McMillian, says about 6,000 people were wrongly denied benefits under the company’s severance plan.<\/p>\n

They argued that the firm had failed to provide payments as high as six months’ worth of salaries, among other terms.<\/p>\n

But Twitter only gave sacked workers at most one month of severance pay, while some did not receive anything, according to the lawsuit.<\/p>\n

Musk axed thousands of Twitter staff globally, downsizing the platform’s trust and safety, human rights and media teams.<\/p>\n

The Twitter layoffs was among the earliest in a series of retrenchments among tech firms to cut costs. Rank-and-file workers were often first to be laid off.<\/p>\n

Many companies had gone on a hiring spree during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic when the use of digital tools grew.<\/p>\n

Companies like Facebook, Google and Microsoft laid off tens of thousands of workers in the years that followed.<\/p>\n

Musk, who was appointed for several months to helm President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, made similar moves when he axed thousands of federal workers earlier this year.<\/p>\n

The department was tasked with reducing US government spending and cutting jobs.<\/p>\n

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