Twitter ordered to pay €550k to Irish senior worker for not clicking 'yes' in 'Fork in the Road' email

Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) Adjudicator, Michael MacNamee, found that Mr Rooney was dismissed because he did not click “yes” to a ‘Fork in the Road’ email from Elon Musk (pictured) and for that reason alone. File picture

Elon Musk’s Dublin-based Twitter International UC has been ordered to pay an unfair dismissal award of €550,131, an Irish record, to a former senior employee.

This follows Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) Adjudicator, Michael MacNamee, finding that the billionaire’s Twitter International UC 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.