If you are being laid off by Twitter

Hey Twitter employees getting laid off tomorrow! IMPORTANT INFO from a CA employment attorney (me):

CA's "WARN" law requires Twitter to give you 60 days notice of a massive layoff.

A layoff of 50+ employees within a 30 day period qualifies.

I know you didn't get that notice.
This WARN law applies to all California employers of 75+ employees, which obviously includes Twitter with its thousands of employees.

Purpose of the law is to give laid off employees time to figure out how to handle this disruption.

And Elon completely ignores it.
Employers like Twitter who violate the WARN Act face civil penalties of $500/day for each violation. With thousands of employees, this could be significant, though maybe not to Elon.
Employees laid off in violation of the WARN Act receive back pay at the employee's final rate or 3 year average of compensation, whichever is higher. Twitter would also be liable for workers' medical expenses that would have been covered under an employee benefit plan.
Twitter will be liable for all of these (civil penalties, lost compensation, lost medical and other benefits) & attorneys' fees for the 60 days it failed to give workers notice.

This flagrant violation of workers rights is outrageous.

Who's in for a class action? LET'S DO THIS
Also, CA's strong antidiscrimination laws apply to Twitter's big layoff tomorrow. Are people of color, women and/or older workers disproportionately chosen, for example?

This was done so hastily, so slapdash, so that the world's richest man can get even richer faster.
We'll see how long Twitter lets my posts stay up. If they take them down tonight, before the layoffs, that means they were on notice of the law I cite and chose to punish me rather than follow it.

That's consciousness of guilt and I'd use it as the basis for punitive damages.

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Certainly even with notice the terminated employees will be locked out.
Some of them are smart enough to do real damage to the works.
That hasn't already been done.

There is nothing that says twitter has to allow you in the office or give you access to employee networks during the 60 days notification period. They do have have to pay you through this period. Then severance pay is then beyond the 60 days. I believe Twitter will be fair about it. There is no basis for the class action suit and it should not even be considered by any judge worth their seat on the bench.

"Downfall of a greedy billionaire" begins!!!

Easy to blame Musk, but remember the previous execs are walking away with up to $200,000,000. If 3700 employees get cut they could spread that out and give each employee $50k. Think they'll do that? Musk isn't the only "greedy" person out there.

Yes, corporations know the law, unlike this lawyer. All they have to do is offer severance and they are good.

Typically paying the laid off employee salary and benefits for 60 days will take care of this obligation and Musk can keep them locked out of the offices and systems during that time, as they should be.

He gonna move twitter offices to Texas so he dont have to deal with laws in the future

When our company went through layoffs during 2020, those chosen to be laid off were told they had 60 days before they would be terminated to get around this.

No one is going to get laid off with last day Friday and the lawyers are going to make sure that everyone that is let go has no reason to come back and sue (Twitter may offer incentive to sign that right away upon termination)

Hey junior attorney it works like this: Executives make the rules and Congress backs them up and makes them laws.

Pound sand with your 60 day notice. Twitter is broke - goes bankrupt and stiffs investors.

Corporate profits are at the Pinnacle of a CORPOCRACY. The last year while Americans pay higher prices - Corporate profits have never risen at such a breakneck speed. Highest jump in 30 years. You get laid off while executives swim in millions

CEOs run America and can manipulate taxes, jobs and cash to server themselves - heck some can even become POTUS

Typical US. SUE SUE SUE.

You know you may have to have 60 days notice but CAL also does not have a statutory requirement for severance packages so let’s be real. We’ll get an email with 60 days notice and that’s it. I don’t see us getting immediate layoff. So we will be going on gardening leave.

So stuff a sock in your mouth.

As for the rest of us. Move on. It’s just another job. I am not happy to be potentially laid off but I’ve been through this dance a few times through acquisitions.

In every company you are a number. One day the number is up. It is what it is. Anyone with a bit of a brain started updating their resume anyway once Elon announced the take over. Common sense.

I have my last day Friday next week.

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