A lawsuit was filed against Twitter on Tuesday, alleging that the social media giant illegally terminated contract workers without prior notice following its acquisition by Elon Musk last year. This legal action is the latest result of the company’s substantial layoffs.
The proposed class action filed in federal court in San Francisco says Twitter fired several employees of staffing firm TEKsystems in November without giving them the required 60 days’ notice under US and California law.
Five additional claims pending in the same court allege Twitter violated rules by targeting female employees for layoffs and discriminating against employees with disabilities. However, Twitter has denied all the allegations.
In early November, Musk, who paid $44 billion (roughly Rs. 3,37,465 crores) to acquire the social networking site, laid off about 3,700 employees, or half of the workforce. Hundreds more employees resigned as a result.
Twitter and TEKsystems, a Maryland-based company named as defendants in the complaint, did not respond to the allegations.
Shannon Liss-Riordan, who is the attorney for the plaintiffs in all of the claims, said in an email that “the CEO of the company thinks he is saving the company money by avoiding these obligations, but we want to show him that his responsibilities Not completing it can be very costly.
Shannon said he has initiated private arbitration proceedings on behalf of more than 1,700 former contractors and employees of Twitter who agreed to arbitrate the legal disputes. It claimed that none of TEKsystems’ employees had signed the arbitration agreement.
She also assists employees who have filed complaints against Twitter with the US Department of Labor. These employees claim they were fired because they spoke negatively about the company, attempted to organize a strike, or engaged in other activities protected under federal labor law.
More recently, Twitter’s distinctive bird logo has recently been replaced by the Doge meme. Elon Musk made the announcement official via Twitter. He shared a snapshot of a conversation he had with a Twitter user who advised him to “just buy Twitter” and “change the bird logo to a dog”.
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