A federal judge in California has dismissed a lawsuit against social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, which accused the company of discriminating against workers with disabilities. The lawsuit was filed after Elon Musk took over the company and implemented a ban on remote work.
The plaintiff, Dmitry Borodaenko, a former engineering manager and cancer survivor, claimed he was terminated for refusing to return to the office during the COVID-19 pandemic. He argued that the ban on remote work violated federal laws requiring employers to accommodate workers with disabilities.
However, U.S. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin ruled that Borodaenko failed to demonstrate how the remote work ban specifically impacted employees with disabilities. The judge noted that the assumption that all disabled employees required remote work as a reasonable accommodation was flawed. Borodaenko has been given four weeks to file an amended lawsuit with more detailed claims.
Elon Musk, in a memo to employees in November 2022, stated that staff should be prepared to work “long hours at high intensity” or leave the company. He later tweeted that working from home was “morally wrong.” The lawsuit is one of several filed by former employees following Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of the company and subsequent layoffs of about 75% of its workforce.
Other lawsuits accuse X of failing to provide advance notice of layoffs, not paying promised severance, and disproportionately targeting women and older workers for job cuts. X has denied any wrongdoing, and some of these cases have been dismissed, with appeals pending.
#Reuters Tech News
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