Ever since the purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk, his and this platform's troubles are not taking its name. Another case has now been filed in the court against Twitter, which is already surrounded in a lawsuit regarding the retrenchment of employees. This time Musk's company has been accused of retrenchment targeting the elderly and not paying severance pay of Rs 4,104 crore ($500 million) after they were fired.

In a lawsuit filed in Delaware federal court, former Twitter senior engineer Chris Woodfield alleges that the company targeted older employees in layoffs after Musk bought Twitter and showed them the way out. Significantly, this is the new allegation among all the allegations leveled on Twitter. The lawsuits against Twitter claim that the company violated federal laws related to employee benefit plans by not paying severance pay.

It is reported that Woodfield, who filed the lawsuit, used to work in Twitter's Seattle office. According to him, the company had repeatedly told its employees after the retrenchment that they would be paid two months' salary and other payments. But till now he and other employees have not received this amount.

Significantly, after purchasing Twitter in October last year, Musk had discharged many employees from the company as part of cost-cutting measures. The company no longer has a media relations department. Twitter says that after the retrenchment, it has also made full payments to all its fired employees. However, a lawsuit was also filed against Twitter in California Federal Court last week, in which former employees said that they too had not received severance pay of about Rs 4,104 crore ($ 500 million).

In the past, Twitter has been accused of unfairly laying off women and differently-abled employees in separate lawsuits. Apart from this, allegations like not giving advance notice to the employees before being fired, not giving promised bonus to the remaining workers have also been made. However, Twitter has dismissed these allegations.