![]() ![]() ![]() Among other things, he has told Twitter staff to work longer hours or quit, and specifically fired staff responsible for policing hate speech on the platform.Īt around the same time as he started the mass firings in late-2022, he also killed Twitter's remote working policy, which was once a progressive calling card for the social media company. In the court of public opinion, Musk has hardly helped himself throughout the process. Additionally, the lawsuits now included further allegations that Twitter's layoffs discriminated “against employees on the basis of sex, race, age and disability” and that it had failed to pay out promised bonuses. ![]() This created a further issue, as Musk and Twitter refused to pay for the arbitration, despite insisting on it and the Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services requiring employers to foot the bill when that's the case.īy summer 2023, Liss-Riordan had therefore filed an additional lawsuit against Twitter for refusing to pay for and move forward with 891 arbitrations, having also taken on representation of the ex-Twitter staff forced into these proceedings. Some of these plaintiffs say they weren't paid the severance at all.įast forward to January 2023 and Twitter was granted a motion to force ex-staff into arbitration who hadn't opted out of it in their contracts with their company. ![]() Musk said Twitter would be paying out three months of severance pay, but the initial lawsuit filed in November 2022 notes that California's Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) laws require employees be given 60 days' advance notice of large-scale layoffs. The trouble started when Musk took over Twitter last October, after which the firings began and approximately 6,000 staff lost their jobs. A Brief History of the Twitter Layoffs Lawsuit ![]()
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