Elon Musk and X Corp. — the Musk-backed father or mother firm of social media platform Twitter — face an investigation over constructing code violations at Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters on Market Road, in response to 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 courtroom 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 house.

The lawsuit alleges below 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 modifications.

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

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

The worker give up slightly 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 towards some senior workers on the premise of age, gender and sexual orientation when it determined to terminate them.

Moreover, the lawsuit stated Musk and members of his transition group, particularly Boring Firm govt Steve Davis, ordered workers concerned within the administration of actual property to slash prices by $500 million as shortly as they may. Within the drive to chop prices, the Musk transition group instructed 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 instructed Twitter senior workers, “Effectively, 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 stated in an emailed assertion that the criticism was opened Friday morning and “no additional motion has been taken but.”

“We count on to achieve out to constructing administration quickly,” the spokesperson wrote. “We aren’t speculating on future potential enforcement motion.”

Learn the lawsuit right here.