Elon Musk threatens to take Australias sacked Twitter staff to court over entitlements bungle [Video]

Elon Musk’s social media platform X is threatening to take some former Australian employees to court, demanding they return entitlements it claims were overpaid to them after it bungled the currency conversion from US to Australian dollars on the payments.

Acknowledging its “conversion error”, the platform formerly known as Twitter is asking former employees, some sacked more than 18 months ago, to repay amounts of up to $70,000 in some cases.

At least six former X employees have received legal notices, according to people speaking on the condition of anonymity.

“It has come to our attention that you received a significant overpayment in error in January 2023,” X’s Asia Pacific human resources department said in an email, seen by this masthead, to …