US media said that Twitter employees filed a lawsuit against the social media giant Twitter, before announcing the largest layoff in the company's history, amounting to 50 percent of employees. Bloomberg reported that the class action was filed Thursday in federal court in San Francisco.
The law requires an employer with more than 100 employees to provide 60 days' advance written notice before a mass layoff, which affects 50 or more employees at a single workplace. This comes after Twitter employees received an email from the current CEO, Elon Musk, informing them of upcoming mass layoffs of employees.
"If your work is not affected, you will receive a notification via your Twitter email, and if your job is affected, you will receive a notification of next steps via your personal email," said a copy of the email obtained by some media outlets. The email added that to "help ensure the safety" of employees and Twitter systems, the company's offices will be temporarily closed and access to all badges will be suspended. "
The email concluded by acknowledging that it will be an "incredibly challenging experience" for the workforce. From Thursday night through Friday morning, dozens of Twitter employees began posting on the platform that they had already been banned from their company email accounts prior to the planned layoff notice.
Twitter employees from departments including Ethical AI, Marketing, Communications, Research, Public Policy and other teams have also tweeted about being laid off, as well as laying off members of an organizing team that helps raise the level of reliable information on the platform including about elections, according to staff posts.
Musk decided to lay off half of the 7,500 employees before acquiring it in recent days. Musk began his tenure at Twitter by firing the social network's top leaders, such as CEO Parag Agrawal and other executives.
Observers fear that Elon Musk's decisions will lead to the collapse of the social media giant, especially as it comes at the time of the midterm elections, and many employees and those responsible for the correctness and auditing of information will be dispensed with. And this isn't the first time Elon Musk has faced class action lawsuits.
In June, a lawsuit was filed against Tesla, after the electric car maker announced that it would lay off about 10% of its workforce. But Tesla ended up winning by a federal judge in Austin. Nevertheless, the company's workers continued to pursue their claims in closed arbitration.
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