From Bloomberg:
November 4, 2022, 5:19 AM UTCUpdated on November 4, 2022, 6:26 AM UTC
- Lawsuit comes as new boss plans to eliminate half of workforce
- Musk called a similar, earlier suit by Tesla workers ‘trivial’
Twitter Inc. was sued over Elon Musk’s plan to eliminate about 3,700 jobs at the social-media platform, which workers say the company is doing without enough notice in violation of federal and California law.
A class-action lawsuit was filed Thursday in San Francisco federal court.
Twitter intends to start cutting staff Friday, the company said in an email to employees. Musk plans to get rid of half the workforce, making good on plans to slash costs at the platform the acquired for $44 billion last month, people with knowledge of the matter have said.
The federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act restricts large companies from mounting mass layoffs without at least 60 days of advance notice....
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