A class-action lawsuit reportedly has been filed against Twitter on behalf of its employees.
The lawsuit says the company’s planned layoffs violate the 60-day notice requirement needed under federal law.
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“We filed this lawsuit tonight in an attempt to make sure that employees are aware that they should not sign away their rights and that they have an avenue for pursuing their rights,” said attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan, who filed the lawsuit, according to Bloomberg.
The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act requires that employers with more than 100 employees must give 60 days’ notice prior to a layoff “affecting 50 or more employees,” according to CNN.
The lawsuit comes a week after Elon Musk finalized his $44 billion deal to purchase the social media company.
The layoffs are expected to begin Friday morning, according to a company memo obtained by the Washington Post.
Sources said Musk is planning to lay off about half of Twitter’s workforce following a review by himself and others, according to the Washington Post report.
Liss-Riordan filed a similar lawsuit in June against Musk’s Tesla after it laid off 10% of its employees.
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A Texas judge ruled in favor of Tesla, and the case is being handled in arbitration, according to Fox Business.
“We will now see if he is going to continue to thumb his nose at the laws of this country that protect employees. It appears that he’s repeating the same playbook of what he did at Tesla,” Liss-Riordan told Bloomberg.
