Five workers have filed a class-action lawsuit against Twitter over the company’s mass layoffs in the wake of South African tycoon Elon Musk’s takeover, claiming it violated federal and state laws by failing to give 60 days’ notice.
The lawsuit was filed in a San Francisco court by five workers, one of whom was laid off, according to the brief, on Tuesday, just two days before Musk announced to thousands of them via email that as of this Friday he would drastically reduce the workforce, which currently consists of 7,500 people.
«Twitter now engages in mass layoffs without providing the notice required under the federal WARN Act,» the lawsuit states, referring to the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification and Retraining Act of 1998, NBC reports.
Three other of these plaintiffs explain in the lawsuit that their Twitter accounts have been blocked this Thursday without notice, so they interpret that they will be part of the workforce that Musk plans to lay off, while the exact number of those affected is not yet known.
