“The commission rejected X’s argument that Rooney quit voluntarily and ruled that not clicking “yes” in response to the email did not constitute an act of resignation.”
Gary Rooney worked at Twitter for over nine years, then got one day to click yes on unspecified terms. X called the silence a resignation. Ireland’s Workplace Relations Commission called it a firing and awarded over €550,000, the largest sum it has ever awarded. Musk tried to run a layoff through a checkbox and skip the severance.