Twitter layoffs prompt lawsuits. (ElonTheMoron continues making a mess of things at Twitter)

[CousinIT]

https://news.yahoo.com/twitter-layoffs-illegal-lawsuit-122037157.html

Twitter (TWTR) employees filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday, accusing the company of violating federal and state laws that govern notice of employment termination.

The employees, based in Twitter’s San Francisco and Cambridge, Mass., offices, are asking a California district court to grant class-action status on behalf of thousands of employees expected to be laid off from the company on Friday. One named plaintiff was terminated on Nov. 1, days after Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s acquisition of the company.

The Twitter workers claim that mass layoffs, if carried out on Friday, would violate a federal law called the Work Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, as well as California’s state WARN Act. They also pointed out that Musk’s electric vehicle company Tesla is facing a similar lawsuit from a group of workers laid off from a Nevada factory.

“Plaintiffs file this action seeking to ensure that Twitter comply with the law and provide the requisite notice or severance payment in connection with the anticipated layoffs and that it not solicit releases of claims of any employees without informing them of the pendency of this action,” the employees stated in the lawsuit.

[PortTack]

1. I was just talking with my daughter about twitter.

I haven’t been on the site since the take over, but she was telling me the politic ppl she follows- Presidents Biden and Obama, VP Harris had little to no hits on their posts. She said she looked then at some gqp ppl and there’s were the same. Has he driven off everyone?

[FirstLight]

3. I don't know but a lot of my friends have cancelled their accounts...

It would be a great thing if he lost his ass by playing god of social media

[underpants]

2. More on the WARN act - I know you couldn't post it.

Under the WARN Act, private for-profit companies with at least 100 full-time workers, such as Twitter, must give employees at least 60 days advance written notice when a mass layoff will affect at least 50 employees and a third of the worksite’s total workforce, or when a worksite is closing that affects 50 or more employees, according to Roger Feicht, a labor and employment attorney at Gunster Law Firm.

The law also applies when 500 or more employees at a single site of employment are terminated during any 90-day period.

[The Third Doctor]

4. From what I've been. Reading the repugs

Love that people are being fired this way. As I've said it again they don't give a damn as long as it's not happening to them. Shit would hit the fan if they were treated this way.

[tanyev]

5. What a jackass. Hopefully this will all blow up in his face.