Twitter seeks arbitration in ex-worker class action

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Update:

• Twitter asked a federal judge in California to send claims it violated the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act with the way it conducted mass layoffs earlier this month to arbitration. 
• Twitter argues the workers signed arbitration agreements that prevent the claims from going to trial.
• The social media company is accused of not providing the required 60-day notice prior to conducting a mass layoff. 
• A group of current and former Twitter employees also sought a protection order earlier this month to prevent the company from sending out separation agreements to laid-off workers. 
• Twitter laid off around 50% of its employees after new owner Elon Musk completed his purchase of the company at the beginning of the month. 

Twitter layoffs class action lawsuit overview: 

• Who: Emmanuel Cornet, Justine De Caires, Grae Kindel, Alexis Camacho and Jessica Pan filed a class action lawsuit against Twitter Inc. 
• Why: The group of former Twitter workers claim the company violated the law in the way it conducted a mass layoff following Elon Musk’s purchase. 
• Where: The class action lawsuit was filed in California federal court.    

(Nov. 08, 2022)

Twitter violated the law by initiating a mass layoff of its employees after billionaire businessman Elon Musk officially purchased the company during the first week of November, a new class action lawsuit alleges. 

Plaintiffs Emmanuel Cornet, Justine De Caires, Grae Kindel, Alexis Camacho and Jessica Pan claim Twitter laid them off without providing them with the 60-day advance written notice they say is required prior to conducting a mass layoff. 

The group of former Twitter workers argue the company violates the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN Act) and the California WARN Act. 

Twitter class action claims company must provide ‘requisite notice’ or ‘severance payment’ to laid-off workers

Twitter must “provide the requisite notice” or “severance payment” to workers included in the Twitter layoffs and inform them “of the pendency of this action and their right to pursue their claims under the federal or California WARN Act,” the Twitter class action states. 

“Plaintiffs here are reasonably concerned that, absent court intervention, Twitter will engage in similar behavior and seek releases from laid off employees without informing them of their rights or the pendency of this case,” according to the Twitter class action. 

The former Twitter employees demand a jury trial and request declaratory and injunctive relief along with an award of compensatory damages for themselves and all class members. 

Cornet, De Caires, Kindel, Camacho and Pan want to represent a nationwide class of employees who are laid off as part of the Twitter layoffs who were not given 60-days notice prior to their termination. 

A group of Twitter investors filed a separate class action lawsuit against Elon Musk last month, claiming Musk made public statements the investors argue were designed to lower the company’s value. 

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The plaintiffs are represented by Shannon Liss-Riordan and Thomas Fowler of Lichten & Liss-Riordan PC. 

The Twitter layoffs class action lawsuit is Cornet, et al. v. Twitter Inc., Case No. 3:22-cv-06857, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

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