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[–] AFKBRBChocolate 130 points 1 year ago (4 children)

For people not reading the article, Twitter was facing a class action lawsuit, but they successfully sued to force employees to go through arbitration, which avoids a class action suit. Only problem is that arbitration rules say the employee has to pay a small fee for filing, but the company has to pay the arbitration costs. Twitter filed to force the costs to be split with the employee, but the organization that overseas arbitration said that's against their rules and has refused to engage in any arbitration activities that Twitter isn't paying for. The pricetag could be millions, and Twitter is simply not paying, so now the employees are suing to force Twitter to pay.

[–] Tentaclius 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How forced an arbitration even legal. I don't get it.

[–] KingKRool 16 points 1 year ago

It is not legal for employees alleging sexual assault or harassment. Because Congress passed a law making that illegal. Also, it is not legal for baggage handlers, because the Supreme Court said there's an exemption for working in interstate commerce. IIRC Congress tried to ban it across the board last year, but it died in the Senate and then the House flipped so there won't be another chance for a few years at least.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago
[–] bappity 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

thank you 🙏
I wish there was a TLDR bot on Lemmy

[–] mjhagen 4 points 1 year ago

I’ve seen one around some places, don’t remember where though.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Makes sense to me

[–] aragon 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Dude is the richest person in the world. Penny pinching and denying his former employees their due when he rapidly raises his wealth is outright evil. Well, I guess there is a reason why no good human ever accumulates hundreds of billion dollars. If you are good, your conscience will force you to use your wealth to make other's lives better and you will lose your big B tag.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

That's exactly how you get wealthy. Screw anyone you can, threaten them with eternal lawsuits, and you can get a huge discount on labour and other costs. Trump was famous for pulling the same shit.

[–] lanolinoil 5 points 1 year ago

Totally drinking the Gospel of Wealth Kool aid. You grind as much money as possible doing evil shit and then give a bunch of money away when you're old so people remember you well and you get to direct the world through philanthropy. Carnegie 101

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It's not even just accumulating and giving that money away due to conscience. Nobody with a conscience could do what it takes to accumulated that large sum of wealth in the first place. You have to stomp on people and actively hurt the people around you.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

It's nice to see labor fighting back. Especially against odds stacked against them.

[–] Yoz 13 points 1 year ago

No surprise there. That's how rich stays rich

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

It's like, he doesn't know whether or not it's going to work, so delays paying anybody (except obviously the lawyers) as long as possible. When it really doesn't work out, nobody gets paid. If it somewhat works out, he negotiates the payment down. Do you want it, or do you want more delay?

[–] ProfessorScience 5 points 1 year ago

I'm a little surprised that Twitter can just refuse to come to the table without simply losing by default. But I suppose they wrote the terms of the arbitration agreement, so... not that surprised.

[–] Skaryon 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's nice to see labor fighting back. Especially against odds stacked against them.

[–] Iamdanno 1 points 1 year ago

There's a lot of whitewashing going on in this thread. It's how nobody voted for the current hated politician, yet they won in a landslide. At least be adult enough to own up to it.

[–] Iamdanno 1 points 1 year ago

There's a lot of whitewashing going on in this thread. It's how nobody voted for the current hated politician, yet they won in a landslide. At least be adult enough to own up to it.

[–] Iamdanno 1 points 1 year ago

There's a lot of whitewashing going on in this thread. It's how nobody voted for the current hated politician, yet they won in a landslide. At least be adult enough to own up to it.

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