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New Delhi:

Billionaire Elon Musk’s X has requested its sacked workers in Australia to return the cash it claims was unintentionally overpaid to them, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.

The social media platform, previously often known as Twitter, acknowledged its error in foreign money conversion from the US to Australian {dollars} on the funds and requested its former workers to repay quantities of as much as $70,000 in some circumstances, the report mentioned on Wednesday. 

The foreign money conversion errors made by X when workers have been paid their entitlements after they have been fired had reportedly led to overpayments of between $1,500 and $70,000. Based on the report, a minimum of six former X staff have received legal notices.

“It has come to our consideration that you simply obtained a major overpayment in error in January 2023,” the Sydney Morning Herald quoted X’s Asia Pacific human assets division as saying, citing an e-mail to a number of former workers this 12 months.

“We might be grateful for those who may prepare the compensation to us at your earliest comfort,” it added.

Elon Musk-led company additionally mentioned that the overpayment was associated to “deferred money compensation” within the type of worker shares issued to the employees after they joined Twitter.

X has been accused in a number of fits of quite a few labor and office violations, together with failing to pay severance to hundreds of staff fired after Musk’s $44 billion acquisition in 2022.

Earlier final 12 months, hundreds of former Twitter employees mentioned they have been cheated of severance pay when the billionaire laid them off after buying the social media platform.