eliminated working from home, and had a disability bias.
The reason for rejection came after the claimant Dmitry Borodaenko, according to the U.S District Judge in San Francisco, didn’t show how exactly Elon Musk’s mandate affected the remote work or a proof about the impact that he had on employees with disabilities. The lawsuit includes the fact that X (formerly Twitter) violated a federal law that requires employers to accommodate workers and eliminate every disability bias.
As an ultimatum, Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin gave him a maximum of 4 weeks to file a more detailed complaint about these events.
Dmitry Borodaenko is a former engineering manager and a cancer survivor and claimed that he was fired from his job quickly after Elon Musk took over the social media platform X (formerly Twitter). He stated that the reason why he was fired was because he refused to report to the office during the pandemic of COVID-19.
After Elon Musk took over the company, he said in a memo addressed to the staff and workers of the company he said that every employee should be prepared to work a lot of hours at a high-intensity level or to quit if they feel that is not possible. Shortly after, he tweeted that it is “morally wrong” to work from home and not in an office.
Judge Martinez-Olguin said that disability bias is not determined by the ban on remote work.
"Borodaenko’s theory improperly relies on the assumption that all employees with disabilities necessarily require remote work as a reasonable accommodation," the judge stated.
Borodaenko or his lawyer didn’t respond yet to these comments about the rejection.
There were a lot of requests for X to respond but the single answer they communicated was “busy now, please check back later”.
This lawsuit is not the first one that other employees filed after they left Elon Musk’s company. He acquired it with $44 billion and shortly after he fired about 75% of its employees and workforce.
These other cases of lawsuits accuse Twitter of not announcing an advanced notice about the layoffs, of not paying the billions of dollars promised in compensation, and of targeting women and older workers for job cuts. As a response, X denied every accusation.
Some of these lawsuits have been dismissed while others are pending.
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