Twitter Inc. asked a California federal judge to send a class action alleging violations related to the recent mass layoffs at the social media company into individual arbitration.
The laid-off workers who sued Twitter previously agreed to arbitrate any dispute arising out of their employment as part of their job offer packet, the company said in a brief filed late Monday.
“Here, Plaintiffs cannot dispute that they electronically signed their Agreements, their signatures appear on the Agreements, their signatures appear on their offer letters, and they could not have completed the process and been hired by Twitter without signing the Agreements,” the company said.
The workers further showed their assent to the arbitration agreement by failing to submit a request to opt out of the deal for 30 days after they began their employment, Twitter said.
Litigation over the mass layoff comes amid chaos at Twitter after Elon Musk purchased the social media company for $44 billion, fired half its workforce, asked some essential employees to return, rolled back its expansive work-from-home policy, and called on workers to sign a pledge to remain at an “extremely hardcore” Twitter or quit.
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