Santa Clara, CAA former Twitter Chief Marketing Officer, seeking to recover employment benefits she alleges were withheld, filed an unlawful discharge lawsuit last November against X, Elon Musk and other defendants. She was allegedly fired after recommending that Musk meet with an employee who disagreed with letting former President Donald Trump back on the platform.Last month, a U.S. District Judge denied defendants’ motion to dismiss because Ms. Berland has plausibly pled entitlement to injunctive relief and thus an ERISA claim, according to court documents.
Plaintiff Leslie Berland filed her lawsuit last November 2024 in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. Bertrand claims she was wrongly denied approximately $20 million in benefits under Twitter’s severance plan after Musk wrongly attempted to justify her termination as being for cause, reported Bloomberg Law.
Berland was Twitter's CMO from February 2016 through November 1, 2022 and a participant in "the Change of Control Severance and Involuntary Termination Protection Policy", which was an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of ERISA. Twitter adopted this plan `to provide certain protections to a select group of key Twitter, Inc. ... employees if their employment is negatively affected by a change on control...
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