Twitter workers fired in mass lay-offs finally got severance offers — and they’re far worse than initially promised. Many are ready for legal action.major strings attached
“If you can’t criticize your employer, if you can’t talk about terms that you’re offered, if you can’t help each other with claims, that clearly violates Section 7 of the [federal labor law],” Bloom said. “While I do think Twitter’s severance agreement is problematic given the NLRB decision … there are still legal obstacles in the way,” Liss-Riordan said. “Because this is a board ruling and not a court ruling as of yet. So I expect there will be further litigation about this.”
. This could be one avenue through which workers who already signed severance agreements could challenge the terms they agreed to, using the board’s new ruling, without going through the court system, Liss-Riordan said.
I refused to sign my Meta severance because of these clauses. Meta offered a different severance than what was publicly announced and wanted to bind us to silence about it. They were also asking people to sign the severance even though they had not paid out final wages.