San Francisco officials are investigating Twitter after six former employees allege that owner Elon Musk’s leadership team broke laws in turning the corporate’s headquarters right into a “Twitter Hotel” for staff being pushed to stay awake late to remodel the social media platform.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that city officials are opening their latest investigation into the corporate that Musk took over late last yr.
That’s after the ex-employees, including a former vp of real estate, alleged in a lawsuit filed in a federal court in Delaware that Twitter didn’t pay them promised severance. Twitter is searching for to dismiss the case.
Additionally they allege that Musk’s team ordered quite a few changes to the corporate’s headquarters in a Thirties Art Deco constructing in downtown San Francisco that violated constructing codes.
Those changes included disabling lights and adding locks that wouldn’t open during an emergency, in response to the lawsuit.
One in every of the plaintiffs is Tracy Hawkins, Twitter’s former vp of real estate and workplace, who was accountable for managing the corporate’s physical offices and leases.
The lawsuit says Hawkins wasn’t initially against Musk’s takeover but “was forced to resign when Elon Musk and his transition team insisted that she violate her skilled ethics by causing Twitter to intentionally breach its leases and other contracts.”
The lawsuit claims Musk refused to pay rent on the constructing.
Ex-employees allege that Musk’s team ordered quite a few changes to the corporate’s headquarters in a Thirties Art Deco constructing that violated constructing codes.AP
That is the most recent investigation into Twitter, which Elon Musk took over late last yr.LUDOVIC MARIN/POOL/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
This shouldn’t be the primary time San Francisco officials have tussled with Musk, who bought Twitter for $44 billion in October and gutted much of its workforce as he converted a component of the corporate’s headquarters into bedrooms.
Earlier this yr, San Francisco constructing inspectors gave Twitter’s construction contractor two weeks to submit a corrected constructing use permit if the corporate desired to keep using two conference rooms as bedrooms.
The town launched an investigation in December after Forbes reported on the beds, prompting owner Musk to lash out at San Francisco Mayor London Breed, regardless that there isn’t any evidence she was involved within the inspection.