{"id":131939,"date":"2025-08-25T07:45:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T15:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/25\/elon-musk-settles-500m-lawsuit-over-withholding-former-employee-severance-package-money\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T07:45:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T15:45:24","slug":"elon-musk-settles-500m-lawsuit-over-withholding-former-employee-severance-package-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/08\/25\/elon-musk-settles-500m-lawsuit-over-withholding-former-employee-severance-package-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Settles $500M Lawsuit Over Withholding Former Employee Severance Package Money"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the strangest things about appointing Elon Musk as the head of government spending efficiency is that he\u2019s largely known for easily preventable and repeated company value loss. There\u2019s that time Tesla stock plummeted because he smoked weed on the Joe Rogan show<\/a>, there\u2019s that time Tesla stock sank by 26% after he \u201cgave his heart out\u201d via sieg heil<\/a>, not to mention that time Tesla stock plummeted by $100M after he fired one of the best people<\/a> who also happened to be on the \u201cDo Not Fire\u201d list<\/a>. This is just the tip of the firing fiasco iceberg; thousands of people were fired after Elon\u2019s X takeover. A recent settlement aims to make them whole. American Bazaar Online<\/a> has coverage:<\/p>\n

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Elon Musk\u2019s social media company X has reached a settlement with former employees who sued for $500 million in severance pay. These workers sued the company over their terminations and severance packages, after around 6,000 workers \u2014 more than half the workforce \u2014 were laid off when Musk first took over the company in 2022.<\/p>\n

Court documents filed by both sides state, \u201cThe parties have reached a settlement agreement in principle and began negotiating the terms of a long form settlement agreement,\u201d according to the BBC. Details of the settlement have not been made public.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Employees were contractually entitled to a severance package of two months base pay and a week of pay for each full year of employment. While the details of the settlement are under wraps, I hope that the fired employees get what they expected, along with enough money to encourage Musk to listen to his \u201chardcore<\/a>\u201d litigation team before he reads a Grok-generated list of the dumbest things he can do and does whatever is at the top because there is a #1 in front of it.<\/p>\n

Elon Musk\u2019s X Settles $500 Million Severance Lawsuit With Ex-Employees <\/a>[American Bazaar Online]<\/p>\n

Earlier<\/strong>: Free Speech Absolutist Elon Musk Reminds People He Laid Off That If They Disparage Him He May Sue Them<\/a><\/p>\n

Elon Is Still Losing Money Over His Twitter Firing Spree<\/a><\/p>\n

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Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord\u2122 in the Facebook group\u00a0Law School Memes for Edgy T14s . \u00a0He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who is learning to swim,\u00a0is interested in critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at\u00a0cwilliams@abovethelaw.com <\/a>and by tweet at\u00a0@WritesForRent<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Elon Musk Settles $500M Lawsuit Over Withholding Former Employee Severance Package Money<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One of the strangest things about appointing Elon Musk as the head of government spending efficiency is that he\u2019s largely known for easily preventable and repeated company value loss. There\u2019s that time Tesla stock plummeted because he smoked weed on the Joe Rogan show<\/a>, there\u2019s that time Tesla stock sank by 26% after he \u201cgave his heart out\u201d via sieg heil<\/a>, not to mention that time Tesla stock plummeted by $100M after he fired one of the best people<\/a> who also happened to be on the \u201cDo Not Fire\u201d list<\/a>. This is just the tip of the firing fiasco iceberg; thousands of people were fired after Elon\u2019s X takeover. A recent settlement aims to make them whole. American Bazaar Online<\/a> has coverage:<\/p>\n

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Elon Musk\u2019s social media company X has reached a settlement with former employees who sued for $500 million in severance pay. These workers sued the company over their terminations and severance packages, after around 6,000 workers \u2014 more than half the workforce \u2014 were laid off when Musk first took over the company in 2022.<\/p>\n

Court documents filed by both sides state, \u201cThe parties have reached a settlement agreement in principle and began negotiating the terms of a long form settlement agreement,\u201d according to the BBC. Details of the settlement have not been made public.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Employees were contractually entitled to a severance package of two months base pay and a week of pay for each full year of employment. While the details of the settlement are under wraps, I hope that the fired employees get what they expected, along with enough money to encourage Musk to listen to his \u201chardcore<\/a>\u201d litigation team before he reads a Grok-generated list of the dumbest things he can do and does whatever is at the top because there is a #1 in front of it.<\/p>\n

Elon Musk\u2019s X Settles $500 Million Severance Lawsuit With Ex-Employees <\/a>[American Bazaar Online]<\/p>\n

Earlier<\/strong>: Free Speech Absolutist Elon Musk Reminds People He Laid Off That If They Disparage Him He May Sue Them<\/a><\/p>\n

Elon Is Still Losing Money Over His Twitter Firing Spree<\/a><\/p>\n

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Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord\u2122 in the Facebook group\u00a0Law School Memes for Edgy T14s . \u00a0He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who is learning to swim,\u00a0is interested in critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at\u00a0cwilliams@abovethelaw.com <\/a>and by tweet at\u00a0@WritesForRent<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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One of the strangest things about appointing Elon Musk as the head of government spending efficiency is that he\u2019s largely known for easily preventable and repeated company value loss. There\u2019s that time Tesla stock plummeted because he smoked weed on the Joe Rogan show, there\u2019s that time Tesla stock sank by 26% after he \u201cgave […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":131857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Chris-Williams-2025-NwbihT.jpg?fit=512%2C288&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}