Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

On the morning of December 27, Beijing time, it was reported that large-scale layoffs were made after American billionaire Elon Musk acquired social media Twitter. Twitter employees disobeyed and took the company to court. The company has also begun to take steps in the hope that the court will dismiss employees' class-action lawsuits.

On Friday, local time, Twitter asked a federal district court in California to either dismiss the employee class action lawsuit or transfer the lawsuit to another court in Delaware. Under Musk's agreement to buy Twitter, legal disputes must be heard in Delaware courts.

Twitter said that the circumstances of the Twitter employees who filed lawsuits against the layoffs were different, and that the plaintiffs did not file claims and charges on behalf of more Twitter employees in the class action.

The complaint filed by Twitter employees in the case was updated earlier this month, showing that some of the plaintiffs had actually been fired by Twitter, but other plaintiffs and Twitter terminated their employment contracts in January or February next year.

Twitter lawyers said some Twitter employees wanted to file class action lawsuits on behalf of the broader workforce, but the allegations made by these employees were "vague and unclear." The lawyers asked the court to stop the plaintiffs from covering a large number of Twitter employees with the charges.

In a legal filing filed with the court on December 23, Twitter's legal team said that the Twitter employees who filed the lawsuit did not even have a precise definition of the "plaintiff group" in the class action, referring only to "thousands of Twitter employees" or "other Twitter employees in the same situation".

However, Shannon Liz-Lildan (Shannon Liss-Riordan), a lawyer representing the plaintiffs of Twitter employees, said she and the Twitter employees she represented were confident in the content of the lawsuit.

"We will take any necessary measures to protect the interests of Twitter employees," the plaintiff's lawyer said.

Liz-Lildan also said that he and the plaintiffs called on Musk, the new owner of Twitter, to show some "holiday spirit", abide by the law and abide by the promises made to Twitter employees. "otherwise, we will take legal action against Musk himself in 2023."

Twitter's legal team has not yet made an update on the plaintiff's lawyer's statement.

In this case, a large number of Twitter employees said that the layoffs occurred very suddenly and offered very little severance compensation. Prior to the completion of Musk's acquisition of Twitter, the previous management of Twitter had made promises and assurances to employees, but the layoffs were not consistent with these guarantees.

Twitter employees said they expected to be able to work from home for another year after the deal was completed, but Musk, the new boss, quickly required all employees to come to the office.

These employees said that many laid-off employees only offered severance compensation equivalent to one month's salary, rather than two months or more. Before Musk became the boss, Twitter's compensation for laid-off employees tended to be two or more months' total salary.

Twitter lawyers told the court that the circumstances of the Twitter employees who filed the lawsuit were different and should be dealt with separately. For example, there is only one plaintiff who has really left Twitter. His name is Immanuel Cornett (Emmanuel Cornet). Cornett said he was fired on November 1 without any advance notice.

Other laid-off employees have been asked to leave the company within the next two months and have received 60 days' notice from their employers in accordance with the requirements of the Practitioners Adjustment and retraining Notification Act, Twitter said. The federal law requires large American companies to notify employees in advance of large-scale layoffs.

Twitter also said that some of the employees who filed the lawsuit were bound by labor arbitration agreements and that their opinions on major layoffs should be dealt with by arbitration bodies rather than resorting to the courts.

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