Illegal sacking? | Twitter wasn't discriminatory to employees with disabilities, court rules

Elon Musk’s social media giant Twitter this week won a lawsuit filed against it by a group of former employees who claimed that the company discriminated against them based on their disabilities, during a mass layoff in 2018.

The decision was made by the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, stating that Twitter did not violate the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) nor the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA).

The lawsuit was filed in 2019 by eight former Twitter employees who had disabilities ranging from blindness, cerebral palsy and autism, among others.

The group alleged that Twitter had violated their rights by failing to provide them with reasonable accommodations and targeting them for layoffs because of their disabilities. They also claimed that the company had targeted older employees, in violation of the ADEA.