Twitter employees file lawsuit claiming mass layoffs violate federal law requiring notice

Twitter was the subject of a class-action lawsuit filed on Thursday by workers alleging that its planned layoffs were in violation of a federal law which requires 60 days notice to employees.

Elon Musk’s $44 billion purchase was completed by the Silicon Valley-based social networking platform. A week later, employees received a letter stating that half of the 7,500-person workforce would be leaving their jobs beginning Friday.

According to the Washington Post, Thursday’s email to employees stated that “Team, in order to place Twitter onto a healthy track, we will go through a difficult process to reduce our global workforce on Friday.” We are aware that this will have an impact on a few individuals who have made valuable contributions, but we believe this is necessary in order to ensure the company’s continued success.

Many top executives have left the company in the wake of the impending layoffs. These include Parag Agrawal, former CEO, Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal and Vijaya Gadde, policy chief.

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Bloomberg reports that the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act requires large employers to inform workers two months before they plan to cut jobs.

The outlet reported that attorney Shannon Liss -Riordan filed the lawsuit in San Francisco to “ensure that employees are aware that their rights should not be waived” and that there is an avenue for them to pursue their rights.

She said, “We will now determine if he continues to ignore the laws in this country protecting employees.” He seems to be following the same path as Tesla.

After Musk’s 10% layoffs, iss-Riordan filed suit in Texas against Musk’s electric vehicle company.

Texas Judge ruled in favor Tesla and ordered employees to undergo arbitration.

According to Twitter’s merger agreement, Musk must pay the same benefits and severance as his employees before he takes over, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Fox Business’ overnight comment request to Twitter was not answered by Twitter immediately.