X Settles Age Discrimination Suit Over Musk’s 2022 Mass Layoffs

A former Twitter Inc. employee and X Corp. reached a deal to end a suit alleging a disproportionate number of workers over 50 lost their jobs in the company’s 2022 layoffs.

John Zeman and the social media platform said in a Tuesday filing in the US District Court for the Northern District of California that they reached a settlement in principle. Zeman alleged that when Elon Musk took over the company and slashed Twitter’s workforce the decisions regarding which workers to cut were made based on age. Zeman alleged roughly 60% of Twitter’s workers older than 50 were laid off ...