Twitter Korea Ltd., the US social media giant’s Korean office, is highly likely to lose a potential legal battle against its abruptly laid-off employees under the local labor law if they decide to file a class action lawsuit against their employer, according to labor experts here.
“Regardless of whether (Twitter Korea) had urgent managerial reasons behind the layoffs, there seems to have been no efforts to overcome them. The employer should have talked to a representative of laborers, but that didn’t happen. There is also a debatable issue with the selection process of the layoff subjects,” said Shin Jae-jin, a labor law professor at Sogang University, referring to the restrictions on dismissal for managerial reasons in the Labor Standards Acts’ Article 24.
Twitter Korea is regulated by Korean law due to the territorial principle, which empowers a sovereign state to exercise jurisdiction over individuals and other legal entities within its territory, according to Shin.
“So from what I have seen, I think (the employees) would have a high probability of winning the legal battle (against Twitter Korea) under Korean law,” he added.
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