Twitter offering some laid-off staff only half what they’re owed, lawsuit says
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Before layoffs began at Twitter, employees had already filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that Twitter violated federal and California laws by not giving staff proper notice before termination. This lawsuit was widely reported, but it's still unlikely that every employee affected by layoffs is aware they're eligible to join the lawsuit. That's a problem, according to Shannon Liss-Riordan, the lawyer representing Twitter staff suing, who says that any employee who doesn't join the lawsuit might end up agreeing to a worse separation deal than Twitter originally promised them.
We have amended our class-action complaint against Twitter," Liss-Riordan told Ars. Since we originally filed the complaint last Thursday, it has now become clear that Twitter has broken promises to employees."
According to Liss-Riordan, Twitter told laid-off employees they would receive the same severance pay and benefits they would have received under Twitter's previous ownership," but it now appears that's not true. Twitter's prior policy was to provide at least two months' severance (or more, based on years of service), as well as bonuses, equity, and other benefits," Liss-Riordan said, but Musk's Twitter told employees given the official termination date of January 4, 2023, that they would only get one month's severance pay.