Women sue Twitter, claiming Musk layoffs unfairly targeted female staff
by Johana Bhuiyan and agencies from Technology | The Guardian on (#66N7Q)
The proposed class-action lawsuit alleges that after the takeover, 57% of women were laid off compared with 47% of men
Two women who lost their jobs at Twitter during mass layoffs after Elon Musk took over the company are suing, claiming that the company disproportionately targeted female employees for cuts.
The discrimination lawsuit is the latest in a series of legal challenges to hit the company after Musk, the world's richest person, bought the company for $44bn and set about making swift, drastic changes including laying off around half its workforce, or roughly 3,700 employees. Hundreds more subsequently resigned.
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