100 Ex-Twitter Employees Slap Charges vs Musk For Sacking

Twitter has been hit with allegations from 100 former employees affected by mass layoffs at the company, including that it unfairly laid off more women than men, terminated employees who were actively on medical or parental leave, and reneged on promises related to severance pay.

Photo Insert: The firm handling the lawsuit has heard from hundreds of former Twitter employees but stated it has only filed the “first wave” of arbitration demands.

The allegations were included as part of the former employees’ demands for arbitration against the company, according to a statement on Tuesday by attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan, Clare Duffy reported for CNN late.

Liss-Riordan is the same attorney who has brought four proposed class action lawsuits against Twitter by former employees affected by Elon Musk’s takeover. The arbitration demands are meant to help workers who can’t participate in that litigation because of contracts they signed with the company.

Claims in the arbitration demands mirror those in the lawsuits. Some also claim that Musk placed “unreasonable demands” on Twitter’s workforce in an effort to shrink its staff, according to the statement.

“The conduct of Twitter since Musk took over is incredibly egregious, and we will pursue every avenue to protect workers and extract from Twitter the compensation that is due to them,” Liss-Riordan said in the statement.

She added that her firm has heard from hundreds of former Twitter employees and has filed only the “first wave” of arbitration demands.

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