Twitter: employees take legal action following wave of layoffs by Elon Musk

Twitter will announce to its employees whether their jobs are terminated or not, this will take place today at 5 p.m. According to previous information, half of the employees will be laid off. “In order to get Twitter on the right track, we will have to begin a difficult process on Friday to reduce our workforce,” is it written in an e-mail sent to the teams.

The social network also explains in the e-mail that its offices will be temporarily closed and that access badges will be deactivated in order to “to ensure the security of each employee, as well as Twitter’s systems and customer data”. Employees who will keep their jobs will be notified by email sent to their professional email address, those who will be terminated will receive a message on their personal email address.

On his side, Bloomberg reports that Twitter employees have filed a class action lawsuit in federal court in San Francisco against Elon Musk’s plan to lay off about half of the workforce, claiming their employer violated California and federal notice period laws before dismissal (60 days in this case).

The job cuts come after billionaire Elon Musk bought the social network for $44 billion and demanded deep cost cuts and imposed an aggressive new corporate culture.