Labour Court adjourns to consider X unfair dismissal case – RTE

Updated / Tuesday, 27 Jan 2026 18:36 In December 2022, the WRC found that Twitter had unfairly dismissed the company’s former Director of Source to Pay, Gary Rooney The Labour Court has adjourned to consider an appeal taken by X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, against a record unfair dismissal award of €550,131 to a former executive. In a ruling in August 2024, the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) found that Twitter had unfairly dismissed the company’s former Director of Source to Pay, Gary Rooney in December 2022. Mr Rooney had failed to respond to the “Fork in the Road” email from X owner Elon Musk in November 2022, in which employees were asked to click “yes” if they wanted to remain on with the company, adding that they would need to be “extremely hardcore” and work “long hours at high intensity”. Mason Eaves, Director of Technical Accounting at X gave evidence at today’s Labour Court hearing. Asked what happened to the Remuneration Committee of the Board of Directors of Twitter when the company was taken over by Elon Musk, Mr Eaves said the entire board was replaced by Mr Musk and that he is the sole member of the
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