Former workers at X's Africa base say they have got their severance pay after a year-long campaign.
Twitter, now X, staff in Ghana at the time of the takeover, many of whom subsequently lost their jobsX, formerly known as Twitter, has finally paid off the staff it sacked in its African headquarters more than a year after they were laid off, the agency which represents them has said.
They had threatened to take X to court for failing to pay the redundancy money they said they were promised.Elon Musk, who took over the company in 2022, embarked on a massive global cull of employees, sacking more than 6,000 people. He had said he was losing more than $4m a day. Agency Seven Seven, the company providing legal representation to the staff, said it had been successful in its quest to get a redundancy settlement and repatriation expenses for foreign staff, although it did not specify the amount of the pay-out.
Last year, sacked staffers told the BBC their treatment by X had harmed their mental health and their finances.They said they were initially told that, although their contracts were being terminated, they would be paid to work for one more month. But they were immediately locked out of their emails and no further salary payments were made.Some of them had moved from neighbouring countries, such as Nigeria.
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