2 months after the shock of layoffs at Twitter, what is the fate of employees who are laid off?

A former Twitter employee told CNN that employees who have been laid off are expected to receive information from the company on January 4, the last official working day for many of the affected workers. by the first wave of layoffs.

However, by the early morning hours of January 5, this employee said they had not received any documents related to the dismissal. Several other furloughed employees posted on Twitter with similar content. One person wrote that they had “never seen a resignation letter let alone fired”.

Spokesperson Kevin Ready for attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan, who represents hundreds of former Twitter employees, confirmed that employees fired by Twitter in early November have not received any notice of termination. .

Spokesman Kevin Ready added that some people expected the notification to be sent on January 4, but no one has yet received it.

Lawyer Liss-Riordan said: “Yesterday was the day thousands of Twitter employees officially left the company, after months of turmoil and uncertainty created by Mr. Elon Musk. These workers are still in a precarious situation.”

Employees began to worry as Elon Musk tried to cut costs at Twitter, the company he bought in October 2022 for $44 billion. After laying off half of the staff in early November, Musk continued to cut and eliminate many staff. Not only that, he also asked those who stayed to sign a commitment to work “hard”.

At the time of the layoff, Musk promised that “everyone who quits will receive three months’ salary.” However, the New York Times reported that Twitter is considering refusing to help laid-off employees to cut costs. Meetings of the company’s management make employees even more nervous.

Fortune page on the afternoon of January 5 published an article from an informed source, saying that Twitter planned to send notice of layoffs to employees, but did not know the exact time these documents were sent. Accordingly, the severance agreements include a commitment to provide laid-off employees one month’s basic salary, along with a requirement that these employees drop lawsuits against the company.

Attorney Liss-Riordan has filed four class-action lawsuits against Twitter on behalf of employees affected by the layoffs. Complaints include the company breaking its promise to allow remote work as well as severance pay. There are also a number of complaints regarding disability discrimination and gender discrimination.

The attorney also filed three complaints against Twitter with the National Labor Relations Board, on behalf of former employees. She also filed 100 more applications with discriminatory content at Twitter, after filing just 100 last month.

According to CNN