Elon Musk's 'X' to appeal record WRC award

Workplace Relations Commission awarded former employee over €550,000 for unfair dismissal over his failure to respond to an email from Elon Musk

At the WRC, Twitter International UC fully contested Mr Rooney’s claim over five days of hearing, claiming he had resigned voluntarily.

Elon Musk’s Dublin-based Twitter International UC has lodged an appeal against a ruling it must pay out an Irish record unfair dismissal award of €550,131 to a former executive.

In the ruling last month at State watchdog, the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC), adjudicator Michael MacNamee found Twitter International UC — now known as 'X' — unfairly dismissed the company’s former director source to pay, Gary Rooney, in December 2022 after he failed to respond to Elon Musk’s ‘Fork in the Road’ email.