California employment lawyer weighs in on lawsuit over alleged WARN Act violation
The power-hungry Elon Musk may have finally bit off more than the “Chief Twit” can chew.
Twitter is facing a class action lawsuit from former employees who claim they weren’t given sufficient notice under federal law that they were being let go, Bloomberg reported.
In a company-wide memo issued on Thursday, which was shared by Business Insider, staff were informed that they would receive an email to their personal email accounts by 9 a.m. PST on Friday if they were being fired. For safety measures, offices were temporarily closed, and all badge access was suspended.
Before those emails arrived, though, many employees began tweeting that they had been terminated after discovering that they were no longer able to access their work email accounts or log into their company-issued laptops.
Roughly 3,700 employees were to be laid off, Bloomberg reported. Musk, who officially took over the San Francisco-based company on Oct. 27, previously told prospective investors that he plans to cut nearly 75% of Twitter’s 7,500 workers, The Washington Post reported.
However, five Twitter employees (as of Friday) have sued the company for not complying with the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, a federal law requiring a 60-day notice for mass layoffs at businesses with 100 or more employees unless they are caused by natural disasters or “business circumstances that were not reasonably...
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