Elon Musk and X Corp. — the Musk-backed mother or father firm of social media platform Twitter — face an investigation over constructing code violations at Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters on Market Road, based on on-line public data with the county’s Division of Constructing Inspection.

The probe, which was beforehand reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, follows a lawsuit filed Could 16 in Delaware court docket by six former Twitter workers, who allege Musk’s “transition group” knowingly and repeatedly ordered them to interrupt native and federal legal guidelines, together with by making unsafe modifications to the corporate’s workplace area.

The lawsuit alleges beneath Musk’s administration, X Corp. directed workers to show rooms within the San Francisco headquarters workplace into “resort rooms,” whereas mendacity to inspectors and their landlord they had been simply “non permanent relaxation areas” with some snug furnishings added and no substantive or structural adjustments.

The lawsuit says one worker was advised to position locks on the unauthorized “resort room” doorways that didn’t meet a California code which “requires locks that robotically disengage when the constructing’s hearth suppression techniques are triggered.”

The ex-Twitter worker mentioned within the criticism Musk’s transition group repeatedly advised them “compliant locks had been too costly” and instructed them as a substitute to “instantly set up cheaper locks that weren’t compliant with life security and egress codes.”

The worker give up somewhat than break that legislation, their attorneys famous within the lawsuit.

The criticism additionally alleges Musk-led Twitter didn’t pay the staff severance, again pay and advantages they had been owed, and discriminated in opposition to some senior workers on the premise of age, gender and sexual orientation when it determined to terminate them.

Moreover, the lawsuit mentioned Musk and members of his transition group, specifically Boring Firm government Steve Davis, ordered workers concerned within the administration of actual property to slash prices by $500 million as shortly as they might. Within the drive to chop prices, the Musk transition group advised workers to easily refuse to pay landlords who had been owed lease by the corporate.

When knowledgeable of the dangers of termination charges for sure leases, Davis advised Twitter senior workers, “Nicely, we simply will not pay these. We simply will not pay landlords,” including, “we simply will not pay lease,” the criticism says.

In the meantime, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez is actively courting Musk to maneuver Twitter headquarters to his jurisdiction. On Friday, he wrote on Twitter, “let’s get them to MIA asap.”

CNBC reached out to Twitter for additional data and the corporate responded with an automatic response that included a poop emoji however no remark.

A consultant for the Division of Constructing Inspection in San Francisco mentioned in an emailed assertion that the criticism was opened Friday morning and “no additional motion has been taken but.”

“We anticipate to achieve out to constructing administration quickly,” the spokesperson wrote. “We’re not speculating on future potential enforcement motion.”

Learn the lawsuit right here.