after Twitter’s new CEO, Elon Musk, oversaw massive staff layoffs, former Twitter employees have announced that they’re filing suit over the company’s severance policies. In a press conference with their lawyer Lisa Bloom, former employees Helen-Sage Lee, Adrian Trejo Nuñez, and Amir Shevat alleged that the company’s handling of their termination constituted a breach of contract, and a violation of California’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act.
That’s because employers, in this case Twitter, are required to shoulder the cost of the arbitration process. And having hundreds or thousands of cases to contend with all at once could be a significant financial and administrative burden for a company already struggling with a massive loss in. Each individual arbitration case can easily cost between $50,000 and $100,000, says Nendel-Flores. “That is, in my view, a significant pressure point—that Ms.
It appears Musk followed the law by retaining employees as paid non working “workers” and giving a 90 day severance. After the first two cases fail for the ex-employees the suits will stop.
Elon offered more severance than required. This is justa headline to get attention. Suit has no merit.
You mean the people that couldn’t give their own job description and were sitting around doing nothing? What a world we live in. Yikes
Let’s play spot the Elon payed bots/ fanboys in the comment section.
Imagine bitching you were given NOT ENOUGH free money to leave a company…
Employers Must Follow Business Policies That Reflect State or Federal Law. Most employee handbooks or written workplace policy documents should also provide employees with information about the employer's policies concerning workplace discrimination, wage and hour laws.
So an angry person who got fired from their job is trying to retaliate. How is this even news?
Policy is Policy!! Policies change from time to time. Today's Policy may or MAY NOT be the same tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a joke. They are getting more than they deserve.
Everyone wants a free lunch get another job and move on bunch of weasels want to sue cuz someone buys a company and fires people give me a break what's this world coming to
Lol…. My money’s on elonmusk