A California federal judge has dismissed a disability bias lawsuit against Elon Musk’s social media platform X, previously Twitter, after the company implemented a ban on remote work.
– Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin stated that Dmitry Borodaenko, a former employee and cancer survivor, did not adequately demonstrate how the return-to-office mandate impacted employees with disabilities.
– Borodaenko claims he was fired after refusing to adhere to the office return policy during the COVID-19 pandemic, alleging a violation of federal law regarding disability accommodations.
– Musk’s November 2022 announcement emphasized the expectation of intense work hours and criticized remote work as “morally wrong.”
– The judge indicated that the suit wrongly assumed all employees with disabilities required remote work as a reasonable accommodation.
– Borodaenko has four weeks to revise and resubmit his complaint with more specifics.
– This lawsuit is part of a series of legal challenges faced by X post-Musk’s $44 billion acquisition, including allegations of improper layoffs and lack of severance pay, which X denies.
