Elon Musk faces class action lawsuit over mass layoffs on Twitter
Elon Musk previously won a similar class action lawsuit brought by Tesla employees, calling the case "trivial".
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As Twitter begins mass layoffs, company employees launch class action lawsuit against new Twitter CEO Elon Musk.
According to multiple sources, Musk began mass layoffs on Twitter on November 4, reducing the company's workforce by 7,500 people. The CEO was supposed to cut up to 50% of Twitter's staff, or about 3,500 people, just days after acquiring Twitter for $44 billion on October 27.
In response to the layoffs, Twitter employees filed a class action lawsuit against Musk in federal court in San Francisco, Bloomberg reported. The lawsuit argues that Twitter violates federal and California laws by terminating employees without sufficient notice.
The action refers specifically to the federal law on the adaptation and retraining of workers, which prohibits large companies from organizing mass layoffs without notice of at least 60 days.
Shannon Liss-Riordan, the attorney who filed the class action lawsuit on Nov. 3, said all Twitter employees should know their rights. Employees "should not waive their rights and that they have a means to enforce their rights," the attorney noted.
Liss-Riordan is known to have also sued Musk's electric vehicle company, Tesla, over similar claims in June 2022, when Musk cut about 10% of its workforce. Tesla ultimately won the case in closed-door arbitration instead of a public court, while Musk reportedly called Tesla's lawsuit "meaningless".
"It looks like he's repeating the same playbook of what he did at Tesla," Liss-Riordan...
Elon Musk previously won a similar class action lawsuit brought by Tesla employees, calling the case "trivial".
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As Twitter begins mass layoffs, company employees launch class action lawsuit against new Twitter CEO Elon Musk.
According to multiple sources, Musk began mass layoffs on Twitter on November 4, reducing the company's workforce by 7,500 people. The CEO was supposed to cut up to 50% of Twitter's staff, or about 3,500 people, just days after acquiring Twitter for $44 billion on October 27.
In response to the layoffs, Twitter employees filed a class action lawsuit against Musk in federal court in San Francisco, Bloomberg reported. The lawsuit argues that Twitter violates federal and California laws by terminating employees without sufficient notice.
The action refers specifically to the federal law on the adaptation and retraining of workers, which prohibits large companies from organizing mass layoffs without notice of at least 60 days.
Shannon Liss-Riordan, the attorney who filed the class action lawsuit on Nov. 3, said all Twitter employees should know their rights. Employees "should not waive their rights and that they have a means to enforce their rights," the attorney noted.
Liss-Riordan is known to have also sued Musk's electric vehicle company, Tesla, over similar claims in June 2022, when Musk cut about 10% of its workforce. Tesla ultimately won the case in closed-door arbitration instead of a public court, while Musk reportedly called Tesla's lawsuit "meaningless".
"It looks like he's repeating the same playbook of what he did at Tesla," Liss-Riordan...
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