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| Employees sue Twitter over mass layoffs |
Former Twitter employees are suing him, claiming that under federal and California law they were not adequately notified that they were unemployed amid the company's ongoing mass layoffs.
Five Twitter employees or former employees filed a class action lawsuit in San Francisco federal court Thursday, including: Emmanuel Cornet, a software engineer known for his cartoons critical of Silicon Valley, was fired Tuesday, according to the indictment.
Twitter notified employees late Thursday that Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of electric car maker Tesla and SpaceX, took control of Twitter for several hours after the acquisitions closed, according to NBC News. A few days later, Twitter began laying off employees. That equates to $44 on Oct 28, $1 billion.
Days after Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took control of the company, Twitter told employees late Thursday that it would begin laying off workers, according to data from NBC News.
Twitter said in the email that employees will be notified via work email when work resumes and via personal email when their interaction with the company ends.
Twitter employees expect the company to lay off 50% of its workforce, which means it will lay off about 3,700 employees.
The federal Workers' Amendment and Retraining Act requires employers to provide notice within 60 days of a mass layoff or closure.
"The plaintiffs took this action to ensure Twitter complied with the law and made necessary terminations or termination payments for early termination," the complaint read.
The lawsuit seeks a court order requiring Twitter to comply with the Change Notification Act and retrain employees. He also tried to prevent Twitter from requiring employees to sign documents waiving their right to participate in the lawsuit.