Disabled Twitter employees resigned because they felt they couldn't keep up with Elon Musk's 'hardcore' drive, discrimination lawsuit says
Borodaenko, who was hired in June 2021, said his workload"vastly increased" after Twitter conducted initial rounds of mass layoffs, according to his lawsuit."As a manager, the number of employees assigned to report to him increased from about 10 to 16," the lawsuit said.
The suit argued that workers like Borodaenko were still able to perform their jobs effectively, but that Musk's ultimatum for overtime culture and ending remote work"does not allow for employees who require reasonable accommodation for their disabilities." "Elon Musk's behavior since he took over Twitter a couple of weeks ago has been nothing short of appalling. I have never seen anything like this in my nearly quarter century representing workers," Borodaenko's attorney, Shannon Liss-Riordan, said in a statement to Insider.
"Elon Musk's statements and actions only serve to deter people with disabilities, many of whom will feel no choice but to resign today in response to his ultimatum," she added. Liss-Riordan this month also filed lawsuits against Twitter on behalf of other former employees. In these lawsuits, the employees said they weren't
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