Twitter confronted a lawsuit on Tuesday accusing the social media large of illegally shedding contract employees with out discover after Elon Musk purchased the corporate final 12 months, the most recent motion stemming from its large job cuts.
The proposed class motion, filed in San Francisco federal court docket, claims Twitter in November laid off quite a few employees employed by staffing agency TEKsystems with out the 60 days of advance discover required by US and California legislation.
Five different instances are pending in the identical court docket accusing Twitter of violating these legal guidelines, focusing on feminine employees for layoffs and discriminating in opposition to staff with disabilities. Twitter has denied wrongdoing.
Twitter laid off roughly 3,700 staff, or half its workforce, in early November in a cost-cutting measure by Musk, who paid $44 billion (roughly Rs. 3,37,465 crore) to amass the social media platform. Hundreds extra staff subsequently resigned.
Twitter and Maryland-based TEKsystems, named as a defendant within the lawsuit, didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
Shannon Liss-Riordan, who represents the plaintiffs in the entire instances, mentioned in an e-mail: “While Elon Musk seems to think he’s saving the company money by avoiding these obligations, we plan to show him that not meeting his responsibilities can be a lot more costly.”
Liss-Riordan mentioned she additionally has filed complaints in personal arbitration on behalf of greater than 1,700 former Twitter staff and contractors who signed agreements to arbitrate authorized disputes. She mentioned employees employed by TEKsystems didn’t signal arbitration agreements.
Liss-Riordan additionally represents employees who’ve filed complaints in opposition to Twitter with a US labour board claiming they had been fired for criticizing the corporate, trying to prepare a strike, and different conduct protected by federal labour legislation.
Twitter has not responded to these claims.
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