Meta and have been accused of actively ignoring Irish labour laws following massive layoffs in the last two weeks.
The multimillion-dollar firms slashed tens of thousands of jobs around the globe in a major crisis for the IT sector. Yesterday, parent company Meta announced it was cutting over 11,000 jobs across its global operations.
Some 13% of its workforce was let go in what is being called one of the biggest tech layoffs of the year. Furthermore, as many as half of its global workforce last week.
The firms have come under fire after employees were locked out of their systems and were left unable to do their jobs even though their job was yet to be terminated under the collective redundancy process. Meta workers were told that the company had decided "to remove access to most Meta systems for people leaving today given the amount of access to sensitive information".
Last week, Twitter employees whose jobs are at risk were locked out of their emails and systems and therefore prevented from doing their work. Labour spokesperson on workers’ rights, Senator Marie Sherlock, said: "The fact that some employees were notified while others were not is proof that the employers have already decided who should be made redundant, but this is one of the principal issues that is meant to be the subject of negotiation and agreement during the 30 day standstill period.
"It is not in compliance with the law to make a pre-emptive announcement, pause for 30 days and then implement...
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