Twitter employees sue company over Elon Musk’s plan to lay off 3,700
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Employees of?Twitter Inc. have dragged the company to court over?Elon Musk’s plan?to cut about 3,700 jobs at the social media firm.?
The workers contend that the company is doing this without giving enough notice, thus violating federal and California labour laws.?
According to an internal memo sent to?Twitter employees, the new management under Elon Musk said it would start conducting layoffs Friday morning.?
Speculations of layoffs:?Nairametrics understands that there were speculations of possible layoffs of Twitter employees long before Elon Musk took over the company last month. The most recent speculation estimated that about half of Twitter’s 7,500 employees would lose their jobs.?
Twitter confirms layoffs:?On Thursday evening, all employees received an email which said they would be informed of their employment status at 9 A.M. PT on Friday. The company explained that “if an employee is keeping their job, they’ll be notified via their work email — if they’re let go, they’ll be notified at a personal address.?
Move violates laws:?Meanwhile, the U.S. Federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN)?Act restricts large companies from mounting mass layoffs without at least 60 days of advance notice.
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The lawsuit by Twitter employees is asking the court to issue an order requiring Twitter to obey the WARN Act and restrict the company from soliciting employees to sign documents that could give up their right to participate in litigation.?
Commenting on the lawsuit in an interview, Shannon Liss-Riordan, the attorney who filed the complaint, said:
What you should know:?Elon Musk?completed?the $44 billion acquisition of Twitter last week, making the hitherto public company become a private one.?
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2 年Yes. there is need for Twitter to follow what the law stipulates.It appears that the notice period is not long enough.
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2 年Why does this sound funny ?? but not actually funny. Twitter has been on the news lately. I hope they transition nicely into their new phase. Sending them hugs ??.
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2 年The planned layoff will amount to a breach of the law if the notice period is not obeyed. Since he cannot be mandated to keep the employees, he should just obey the law, and notify the employees appropriately in addition to fulfilling any other terms of engagement.