Labour Court set to hear Elon Musk's X appeal against unfair dismissal award of €550,131 

Workplace Relations Commission found company had unfairly dismissed director who did not respond to Elon Musk's 'Fork in the Road' email in November 2022

On November 16, 2022, the Twitter workforce received an email from Elon Musk, who said: 'To build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0, and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we will need to be extremely hardcore. This will mean working long hours at high intensity.'

The Labour Court has set aside three days at the end of next month to hear Elon Musk’s X 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 August, Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) adjudicator Michael MacNamee found Twitter International UC — since renamed X Internet Unlimited Company — 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.