Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Twitter For Mass Layoff Without Proper Notice

A class-action lawsuit has been filed against microblogging platform Twitter in San Francisco federal court after Elon Musk¡¯s plan to eliminate around 3,700 jobs at the social media platform, reveals a Bloomberg report.

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Employees at the social media company have stated that the company is taking such a huge step without appropriate notice, under a violation of federal and California law.

Twitter plans to start cutting staff today 9:30 PM IST (9:00 AM PST), which it revealed in an email to the employees. According to the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, large companies are restricted from mounting mass layoffs without at least 60 days of advance notice.

Musk, when he acquired the company for $44 billion last month, promised to cut down costs at the platform.

The lawsuit asks the court to issue an order to ask Twitter to comply with the WARN Act and restrict it from soliciting employees to sign documents that could give up their right to participate in litigation.

Shannon Liss-Riordan, the attorney who filed Thursday's complaint, said in an interview (revealed by Bloomberg), ¡°We filed this lawsuit tonight in an attempt the make sure that employees are aware that they should not sign away their rights and that they have an avenue for pursuing their rights.¡±

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Liss-Riordan was also behind the lawsuit against Tesla over similar claims sometime in June when the company decided to lay off 10 percent of its workforce.

Tesla won a ruling from a federal judge in Austin forcing workers on the case to pursue their claims in closed-door arbitration instead of the court of law.

Liss-Riordan added, ¡°We will now see if he (Musk) is going to continue to thumb his nose at the laws of this country that protect employees. It appears that he's repeating the same playbook of what he did at Tesla.¡±

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