In an aerial view, a modified company sign is posted outside Twitter headquarters in San Francisco, April 10, 2023.
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Elon Musk and X Corp. — the parent company of the Musk-backed social media platform Twitter — faces an investigation over a building rule violation at Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters on Market Street, according to online public records with the county Building Inspection Department.
The poll, previously reported by San Francisco Chroniclesfollows a lawsuit filed May 16 in a Delaware court by six former Twitter employees who allege Musk’s “transitional team” knowingly and repeatedly ordered them to violate local and federal laws. state, including making unsafe modifications to corporate office space.
The lawsuit alleges that under Musk’s administration, X Corp. directed employees to turn rooms in the San Francisco headquarters office into “hotel rooms”, and lied to inspectors and landlords that they were just “temporary rest spaces” to be added. Some furniture is comfortable and has no intrinsic value. or change the structure.
The lawsuit says that an employee was asked to place a lock on an unauthorized “hotel room” door that did not meet California’s rule “requiring the lock to automatically disconnect when the building’s fire suppression system is activated. “
The former Twitter employee said in the complaint, Musk’s transition team repeatedly told them “compliant locks are too expensive” and instructed them to instead “immediately install cheaper non-compliant locks.” Follow the life and exit safety codes.”
The employees quit rather than break that law, their attorneys noted in the lawsuit.
The complaint also alleges that Musk-led Twitter failed to pay severance, redundancy and benefits owed to employees, and discriminated against certain senior employees on the basis of age. gender and sexual orientation when deciding to fire them.
Additionally, the lawsuit says Musk and members of his transition team, specifically Boring Company chief executive Steve Davis, ordered employees involved in the management of the estate to cut reduce costs by $500 million as quickly as possible. In an effort to cut costs, Musk’s transition team told employees that they only need to refuse to pay landlords who owe the company’s rent.
When informed of the risk of termination fees on certain leases, Davis told senior Twitter employees, “Well, we’re not going to pay those. We’re not going to pay for those.” landlord,” adding, “we will not pay rent,” the complaint said.
Meanwhile, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez is actively persuading Musk to move Twitter headquarters to his jurisdiction. On Friday, he wrote on Twitter“get them to MIA as soon as possible.”
CNBC reached out to Twitter for more information, and the company responded with an automated response that included a poop emoji but no comment.
A representative for the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection said in an emailed statement that the complaint was opened Friday morning and “no action has been taken.”
“We hope to be in contact with building management soon,” the spokesperson wrote. “We do not speculate on potential future enforcement action.”
