Musk’s Ex-Twitter Workers Win Severance Over Layoff After Email

Former Twitter employees are scoring early victories in legal challenges to Elon Musk’s mass layoffs when he bought the company in 2022.

Four ex-Twitter workers have prevailed in a recent series of closed-door arbitration proceedings over claims they were illegally denied severance, according to a memo seen by Bloomberg News. More than two years ago, Musk asked Twitter employees in an email with the subject line “A Fork in the Road” to either commit to an “extremely hardcore” work environment or leave the company.

Musk’s cost-cutting strategies have been thrust into the national spotlight with a similar hardline approach ...