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Twitter class action lawsuit overview:
- Who: A federal judge in California has ruled Twitter must provide around 3,700 workers let go during a mass layoff in November notice of a proposed class action lawsuit.
- Why: Twitter, along with its new owner Elon Musk, has been accused of failing to provide lawful notice prior to conducting the mass layoff last month after Musk completed his acquisition of the company.
- Where: The class action lawsuit was filed in California federal court.
A federal judge in California has ruled Twitter must inform the thousands of employees it laid off after Elon Musk purchased the company of a proposed class action lawsuit accusing the company of violating the law with the sackings.
Twitter laid off around 3,700 of its employees last month after Musk completed his acquisition of the social media company, in what was done as a “cost-cutting measure,” Reuters reported.
The judge reportedly ruled Twitter must provide a “succinct and plainly worded notice” to the laid-off employees, prior to the company asking them to sign a severance agreement that would waive their ability to sue.
Twitter, meanwhile, had previously agreed to not seek severance agreements stripping laid-off workers of their ability to sue the company, pending the judge’s decision, Reuters reported.
Twitter accused of not providing 60 days’ notice before mass layoff
Musk and Twitter are reportedly accused of failing to provide 60 days notice — as required by federal and California law — to employees who were part of the mass layoff.
The plaintiff behind the proposed class action lawsuit argued further that not telling laid-off employees about the complaint prior to asking them to sign the severance agreements would constitute as misleading, reports Reuters.
Twitter had reportedly argued that providing notice of the proposed class action lawsuit to the laid-off workers was unnecessary since the majority of them had already signed agreements waiving their ability to join class action lawsuits filed against the company.
In addition to the class action lawsuit behind the judge’s ruling, Twitter is facing three separate class action lawsuits similarly accusing the company of failing to provide notice prior to the layoffs, along with claims it discriminated against women and employees with disabilities, Reuters reported.
More than 5.4 million Twitter users’ private information was exposed on a public hacking forum in November by threat actors who had gained unauthorized access to the data during a December 2021 data breach.
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