The Trump administration's deferred resignation offer for federal workers has thrown many — both inside government and out — for a loop.
But for Shannon Liss-Riordan, it also brings a sense of déjà vu.
Liss-Riordan is an employment lawyer representing 2,000 former Twitter employees in individual arbitration, as well as over a dozen class action lawsuits, related to the company's treatment of workers after Elon Musk bought the company — which he has since renamed X — in 2022.
"The main claim related to the Twitter fiasco was that employees had been promised for many months prior to Musk's acquisition of the company that if they lost their jobs after he acquired the company, they would get this very generous severance package," she explains. "And then he came in and terminated 80% of the workforce and didn't pay that severance package."
The week after Musk took over, Liss-Riordan says, about half the company was notified they were being laid off. Individuals were only offered one month of pay instead of the severance package they were promised, sparking the first round of lawsuits.
The next wave of layoffs happened two weeks later with the now-infamous "Fork in the Road" email.
"Going forward, to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we will need to be extremely hardcore," Musk wrote to the remaining employees. "This will mean working long hours at high intensity … If you are sure that you want to be part of the new Twitter,...
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