Labour Court to hear X appeal of payout for unfair dismissal to former Irish executive

The main Irish unit of Elon Musk’s X will commence its appeal at the Labour Court on Tuesday against a ruling that it must pay out an Irish record unfair dismissal award of €550,131 to a former executive. Picture: Kirill Kudryavtsev/ AFP  via Getty Images)

The main Irish unit of Elon Musk’s X will commence its appeal at the Labour Court on Tuesday against a ruling that 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 that 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.