Twitter will not seek releases from its remaining employees until at least the first week of December, according to an agreement in a class-action lawsuit by workers who say owner Elon Musk violated federal and state law in a recent spate of company-wide mass layoffs.
The order came Friday in the form of a docket entry which said that Twitter had agreed, via stipulation, not to ask employees to sign documents that would release Twitter from certain legal claims pending an order from the court.
“The parties’ proposed briefing schedule on the protective order motion, Dkt. No. 14, is adopted with the understanding that Twitter will not seek employee releases pending further order,” the docket said. “A hearing is set for December 8, 2022, at 3:00 p.m.”
As Law&Crime previously reported, a group of Twitter employees have sued the company on Nov. 4 in a class action complaint over the way it allegedly notified workers that they were being laid off. The employees say that Twitter failed to follow both state and federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Acts that require employers to give 60 days’ notice to employees before “plant closings” or “mass layoffs.
Friday’s order stems from the plaintiffs’ Nov. 9 emergency motion for a protective order that would “prevent Defendant Twitter, Inc. from seeking releases from employees it is laying off without notifying them of the pendency of this lawsuit, the claims brought here on their behalf, and contact...
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