Kaiden是最新一位起诉马斯克拖欠遣散费的Twitter前高管。今年早些时候，Twitter前CEO帕拉格·阿格拉瓦尔（Parag Agrawal）和其他三名前高管也起诉马斯克拖欠遣散费，索赔1.28亿美元。According to a lawsuit filed earlier this month in the Northern District of California, Twitter's former chief accounting officer (CAO) Robert Kaiden is suing Musk for unpaid severance pay of $3.75 million.
In the complaint, Kaiden claimed that after Tesla's acquisition of Twitter in October 2022, Musk falsely accused him and other Twitter executives of wrongdoing, wrongfully terminated their employment, and avoided paying tens of millions of dollars in severance pay. Specifically, a total of $200 million.
Musk has yet to comment on this.
Kaiden is the latest former Twitter executive to sue Musk for unpaid severance pay. Earlier this year, Twitter's former CEO Parag Agrawal and three other former executives also sued Musk for $128 million in unpaid severance pay.
In addition, Musk is also facing lawsuits from other laid-off employees.
According to the lawsuit, Kaiden, who served as Twitter's CAO since 2015, has been working to ensure a smooth acquisition of Twitter by Musk. In addition, Kaiden was responsible for a wage audit to ensure that Twitter's employees were real people and not the fake "ghost employees" that Musk was concerned about.
According to the lawsuit, Kaiden received a letter on November 2nd, 2022, notifying him that he had been immediately terminated for gross negligence or willful misconduct in the performance of his duties. The complaint also alleges that Kaiden did not receive his final paycheck from the company.
The complaint also claims that Kaiden's severance claim was reviewed by a committee consisting of Lindsay Chapman and Brian Bjelde, who work in Musk's human resources department at SpaceX.
Ultimately, the committee rejected Kaiden's claim, claiming that Kaiden failed to prevent Twitter's board of directors from spending on legal expenses, retention bonuses, and aggressive growth plans related to the acquisition, and was subsequently terminated. Kaiden claims that these reasons were completely fabricated and were just excuses for firing him.
Lindsay Chapman and Brian Bjelde have not yet commented on this.
