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Twitter is facing a class action lawsuit from former employees

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You don’t just axe off half a company staff with little to no notice, severance.

I think this type of sleazy, heartless behavior is the prime effect of Silicon Valley glorification.

But hey, it’s a free, fast paced tech driven country no damage done no? Degenerate

I hope employees air the dirty laundry...

What’s to show when you’re more powerful than the state?

> You don’t just axe off half a company staff with little to no notice, severance.

Do you have a source for the "no severance" part?

I've not seen any information at all out there about the conditions under which Twitter employers are being terminated; only the process of informing them of their status.

> Do you have a source for the "no severance" part?

The fact that lawsuits have already been filed under the state and federal WARN acts at least suggests that the minimum mandatory pay-in-lieu of notice under those laws has not been paid.

I don't and I should've deleted it while it was still editable....

So my fault for peppering a big plate of hate, but I can't get over his Sim City 2nd grade playing callousness.

I respect that he claims he's doing this to end censorship for societal impact. but so far I don't see anything about a letter, speech, any sign of this guy NOT walking into Twitter HQ like Dr Evil with peoples livelihood at stake.

Given he's already at the top, I think PR is such a miniscule issue to him it's simply more efficient to weed people out, regardless of what anyone else thinks of how he chooses to.

I guess Superman can step on my face as long as he's saving the world

Manu Cornet posted on his personal site about being let go from Twitter, and said he was given no severance. I’m not sure he was technically part of the mass layoff, or if his removal was pre-layoff.

Can't they satisfy the WARN act by giving at least 2 months of severance pay and benefits?

Does it matter if the company is now private?

What does being private have to do with it?

Being private has no effect on WARN requirements.

They can. Are they?

Last I knew there was talk of calling these "for cause" terminations to try to get around severance and such, but I have no idea if this is true. Is there any knowledge out there about what kind of severance is being offered?

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