Twitter Asks Court to Toss Workers’ Post-Merger Severance Suit

Laid-off workers who say Twitter Inc.'s merger agreement promised them severance are neither parties to nor beneficiaries of the contract, so the case should be thrown out, the company told a federal judge.

The former workers lack standing to seek severance benefits based on the agreement that gave Elon Musk control of the social media platform late last year because they didn’t sign the deal and it didn’t include them in a list of limited third-party beneficiaries, according to the dismissal motion Twitter filed in the US District Court for the District of Delaware.

The workers filed a would-be class ...