Ex-Twitter Workers Cast Doubt on Class Deal in Severance Lawsuit

A potential class settlement between Elon Musk‘s X Corp. and laid-off Twitter Inc. employees seeking $500 million in severance payments appears to be in peril, two former workers told a federal appeals court.

The plaintiffs who announced in August that they’d reached a class-wide settlement have changed course and hired new lawyers to pursue only individual claims, two former Twitter employees said Thursday in a motion seeking to intervene in the lawsuit. The employees, Diana Ye and James Kurtz, asked the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for permission to step in and either continue negotiating the ...