Twitter Hit With Legal Complaints by 100 Ex-Employees After Musk Takeover

Twitter on Tuesday was accused by 100 former staff of assorted authorized violations stemming from Elon Musk’s takeover of the corporate, together with concentrating on girls for layoffs and failing to pay promised severance.

Shannon Liss-Riordan, a lawyer for the employees, stated she had filed 100 calls for for arbitration in opposition to Twitter that make related claims to 4 class motion lawsuits pending in California federal courtroom.

The staff all signed agreements to convey authorized disputes in opposition to the corporate in arbitration fairly than courtroom, Liss-Riordan stated, which suggests they’ll doubtless be barred from collaborating within the class actions.

Twitter laid off roughly 3,700 staff in early November in a cost-cutting measure by Musk, who paid $44 billion (roughly Rs. 3,37,465 crore) to accumulate the social media platform, and a whole bunch extra subsequently resigned.

The arbitration calls for accuse Twitter of intercourse discrimination, breach of contract, and illegally terminating staff who had been on medical or parental depart.

Twitter didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

Liss-Riordan stated her agency has spoken with a whole bunch of different ex-Twitter staff and intends to file extra authorized claims in arbitration on their behalf.

“The conduct of Twitter since Musk took over is incredibly egregious, and we will pursue every avenue to protect workers and extract from Twitter the compensation that is due to them,” she stated.

The pending class motion lawsuits declare Twitter laid off staff and contractors with out the 60 days’ discover required by legislation, disproportionately laid off girls, and compelled out staff with disabilities by refusing to permit distant work.

Twitter can also be dealing with a minimum of three complaints filed with a US labour board claiming staff had been fired for criticising the corporate, trying to organise a strike, and different conduct protected by federal labour legislation.

The firm has denied violating the legislation requiring superior discover and has not but responded to the opposite claims.

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