Elon Musk and Twitter face San Francisco city probe over headquarters

Elon Musk and X Corp.— the Musk-backed genitor institution of societal media level Twitter — look an probe implicit gathering codification violations astatine Twitter's San Francisco office connected Market Street, according to online nationalist records with the county's Department of Building inspections.

The probe, which was antecedently reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, follows a suit filed connected May 16 successful Delaware tribunal by six erstwhile Twitter employees, who allege that Elon Musk's "transition team" knowingly and repeatedly ordered them to interruption section and national laws, including by making unsafe modifications to the company's bureau space.

The suit alleges that nether Elon Musk's management, X Corp. directed employees to crook rooms successful the San Francisco office bureau into "hotel rooms," portion lying to inspectors and their landlord that they were conscionable "temporary remainder spaces" with immoderate comfy furnishings added and nary substantive oregon structural changes.

The suit says that 1 worker was told to spot locks connected the unauthorized "hotel room" doors that did not conscionable a California codification which "requires locks that automatically disengage erstwhile the building's occurrence suppression systems are triggered."

The ex-Twitter worker said successful the ailment that Musk's modulation squad repeatedly told them that "compliant locks were excessively expensive" and instructed them alternatively to "immediately instal cheaper locks that were not compliant with beingness information and egress codes."

The worker discontinue alternatively than interruption that law, their attorneys noted successful the lawsuit.

The ailment besides alleges that Musk-led Twitter failed to wage the employees severance, backmost wage and benefits they were owed, and discriminated against immoderate elder employees connected the ground of age, sex and intersexual predisposition erstwhile it decided to terminate them.

Additionally, the suit said that Musk and members of his modulation team, namely Boring Company enforcement Steve Davis, ordered employees progressive successful the absorption of existent property to slash costs by $500 cardinal arsenic rapidly arsenic they could. In the thrust to chopped costs, the Musk modulation squad told employees to simply garbage to wage landlords who were owed rent by the company.

When informed of the risks of termination fees for definite leases, Steve Davis told Twitter elder employees "Well, we conscionable won't wage those. We conscionable won't wage landlords," adding, "we conscionable won't wage rent," the ailment says.

Meanwhile, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez is actively courting Musk to determination Twitter office to his jurisdiction. On Friday, he wrote connected Twitter, "let's get them to MIA asap."

CNBC reached retired to Twitter for further accusation and the institution responded with an automated effect which included a poop emoji but nary comment.

A typical for the Department of Building Inspections successful San Francisco did not instantly respond to a petition for further information.

Read the suit here.