Elon Musk faces class-action suit over mass Twitter layoffs

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The move out of the Elon Musk playbook is shaping a similar scenario to the one that happened in the so called “trivial” lawsuit against Tesla.

In response to the layoffs, Twitter employees filed a class-action lawsuit against Musk in San Francisco federal court, Bloomberg. The suit argues that Twitter is violating federal and California laws by laying off employees without enough notice.

The action specifically refers to the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, which restricts large companies from mounting mass layoffs without at least 60 days of advance notice. Renowned civil rights attorney Lisa Bloom argued that Musk has completely ignored the law, which applies to all California employers of more than 75 employees.

This WARN law applies to all California employers of 75+ employees, which obviously includes Twitter with its thousands of employees.And Elon completely ignores it.Shannon Liss-Riordan, the attorney who filed the class-action lawsuit on Nov. 3, said that all Twitter employees should be aware of their rights. The employees “should not sign away their rights and that they have an avenue for pursuing their rights,” the attorney noted.

Liss-Riordan is known for also suing Musk’s electric car firm Tesla over similar claims in June 2022, when Musk

 

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Can we start a class-action lawsuit against those being fired, for potential proposed damage to a platform we use everyday?

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