Yup and the reason why he had to tweet about it is because HR wouldn't reply to him about his job status. And that was because HR's records were flagged "DO NOT EVER FIRE THIS GUY." Genius boy was probably too busy tweeting to bother replying to all the messages from HR who were probably desperately trying to explain the situation to him.
So genius boy publicly suggested this guy was probably faking his medical condition to get out of doing work. Got the attention of employment lawyers everywhere, because that's a huge no-no.
As it turns out, the guy did indeed have a serious medical condition, and like you say if Musk fired him he'd have to pay him a couple of hundred million. Dude was basically a saint in Iceland, chose to get payment from Twitter (when they bought his company) in the form of income so he could pay more in taxes because he appreciated what the Icelandic government did for people with medical conditions like his.
There were so many levels of stupid to this it was mind boggling.
Sure it seems draconian, but how else are we going to get the kids to stop vaping and start smoking cigarettes like we did when we were in high school?
Won't someone please think of Phillip Morris' profit margins?