Elon Musk’s X has reached a tentative settlement with former employees of the company then known as Twitter who’d sued for $500 million in severance pay.

In October 2022, Elon Musk officially took over X and moved quickly to lay off over 70 percent of the workforce. Former staffers subsequently filed a lawsuit claiming they received only a month of severance pay or, in some cases, no severance at all.

The tentative $500 million deal, filed in federal court, covers about 6,000 workers who were laid off after Musk bought the company for $44 billion and rebranded it as X.