Soon after Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter on Oct. 27, mass layoffs began. On the night of Nov. 3, hundreds of the company’s employees were notified via email that they no longer worked there, though some have since been asked to come back, Bloomberg reports.
In the wake of the layoffs, five former or current Twitter employees filed a lawsuit against the company alleging it had violated workers’ rights per the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act. That stipulates that workers must receive a 60-day notice prior to mass layoffs.
Musk recently weighed in on Twitter, saying, “Everyone exited was offered 3 months of severance, which is 50% more than legally required.” Twitter representatives did not respond to CNBC Make It requests for comment.
And it’s not the only tech giant cutting staff: Meta, parent company of Facebook, announced this week it would be laying off 11,000 employees as well.
It remains to be seen if the courts will find the Twitter layoffs violated employee rights. Meanwhile, it’s helpful to understand this law and your own rights in the case of a mass layoff.
Here’s what U.S. workers should know about the WARN Act, which covers all 50 states.
The federal WARN Act, which took effect in 1989, only covers workers who work for more sizeable employers.
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