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Twitter layoffs class action lawsuit overview:
- Who: Laid-off Twitter employees in the UK have sent their former employer a letter accusing the company of breaking the law with the way it handled a mass layoff in November.
- Why: Former UK Twitter workers claim the company failed to allow for a proper warning and consultation period when it conducted the mass layoff.
- Where: Twitter laid off workers around the globe, including in the UK.
Twitter broke the law with the way it handled a recent mass layoff that included dozens of workers from the UK, a new proposed class action lawsuit alleges.
A law firm representing UK Twitter employees claims Twitter broke the law by ending the workers’ access to its internal systems without allowing for a proper warning and consultation period, reports CNN Business.
Law firm Winckworth Sherwood, in a letter to Twitter, reportedly also accused the company of failing to supply the information it used to determine what employees would be terminated during the mass layoff.
A total of 43 laid-off UK Twitter employees are currently included in the proposed class action settlement, which the law firm says will be taken to the Employment Tribunal in the event Twitter does not otherwise agree to cooperate with negotiations, reports CNN Business.
Twitter was also reportedly contacted this week by the UK trade union Prospect, which wrote a letter to the social media company expressing concern about how it conducted the process for its mass layoff.
Twitter laid off half of global workforce in November following Musk takeover
Twitter laid off half of its global workforce in November, after new owner Elon Musk finalized his acquisition of the social media company for $44 billion, while the company has continued to push out and let go employees in the months since, reports CNN Business.
A federal judge in California ruled last month that Twitter must inform around 3,700 workers it laid off about a proposed class action lawsuit accusing the company and Musk of failing to provide them lawful notice prior to their dismissal.
Twitter has been ordered to provide a “succinct and plainly worded notice” to laid-off workers before they send them a severance agreement that would, if signed, waive the employees ability to sue their former employer.
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