Twitter Staff in Ghana Finally Receive Settlement: A Tale of Resolution and Relief
X, formerly known as Twitter, has reached a long-awaited settlement with its former employees in its African headquarters in Accra, Ghana. This resolution comes more than a year after the unexpected termination of the workforce in November 2022. Most of the affected staff, who had been working at the social media platform for just a few months, had been seeking their promised redundancy payments. The dispute had escalated, with the former employees expressing their intention to take legal action against X for failing to fulfill the commitments made regarding their severance packages.
The African contingent, numbering fewer than 20, had recently relocated to X's new office in Accra when they were abruptly terminated. This move followed several months of remote work necessitated by the ch...