Rumors of massive layoffs had followed Elon Musk’s acquisition of the social media platform Twitter. Apparently, the billionaire had thought that there were too many employees in the company and that it could be operating with much less. This has finally come to pass after the company had axed more than 3,000 roles less than a week after the acquisition was finalized. However, the employees are fighting back.
What followed the mass layoffs from the social media company was a class action lawsuit. A total of 3,700 employees had been laid off in what looks like one fell swoop. In the lawsuit, the employees claim that they were not given any prior notice before their layoffs. Furthermore, the employees said that they were all notified of their termination via email on Thursday.
The grievance of the class action lawsuit is that the company had violated both state and federal laws in the manner that it had carried out the termination. It points to the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) which requires that any company with at least 75 employees need to give ample notice of 60 days before a layoff of such magnitude can be carried out.
Shannon Lisa-Riordan, the attorney for the plaintiffs, had previously filed a similar lawsuit against Elon Musk’s Tesla following the layoff of 10% of its staff. Apparently, Twitter had violated the WARN Act by carrying out such layoffs, hence the class action lawsuit.
The lawsuit is...
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