Parties in X’s Arbitration Dispute vs. ex-Employees Ask Court to Lift Stay

Lawyers for Twitter, now X, and for the nine former employees, on behalf of thousands of others, who are petitioning to compel their claims against the company to arbitration (see 2309010040) met for mediation Dec. 1 but were unable to resolve their dispute, said their joint status report Tuesday (docket 4:23-cv-03301) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco. They ask that the stay that was ordered Sept. 21 pending the outcome of that mediation be lifted immediately, and that the court enter a briefing and hearing schedule for the petitioners’ motion to compel arbitration and for a preliminary injunction, said the report. Under that proposed schedule, the petitioners’ motion would be due Friday, and X’s response in opposition would be due Feb. 2, said the report. The parties are also asking the court to schedule a hearing on the motion for Feb. 29 at 2 p.m. PST, it said. The former employees contend that X refuses to engage them in arbitration, despite having compelled those employees in previous lawsuits to arbitrate their claims (see 2307060033).