Twitter Inc. was sued over Elon Musk's plan to eliminate about 3,700 jobs at the social-media platform-- half of its workforce-- which workers say the company is doing with out enough notice in violation of federal and California law.
Twitter plans to start cutting staff Friday, the company said in an email to employees. Musk has vowed to slash costs at the platform he acquired for $44 billion last month, people with knowledge of the matter have said.
The federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act restricts large companies from mounting mass layoffs without at least 60 days of advance notice.
Twitter didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
The lawsuit the court to issue an order requiring. Twitter to obey the WARN Act, and restricting company from soliciting employers to sign documents that could give up their right to participate in litigation.
"We field this lawsuit tonight in an attempt the make sure that employees are aware that they should not sign away their right and that they have an avenue for pursuing their rights, Shannon Liss-Riordan, the attorney who filed Thursday's complaint, said in an interview.
Liss-Riordan sued Tesla Inc. over similar claims in June when the electric car maker headed by Musk laid off about 10% of its workforce.
Elon Musk described the Tesla lawsuit as "trival" during a discussion with Bloomberg Editor-In-Chief John Micklethwait at the Qater Economics Forum in June.
"We will now see if he going to continue to thumb his nose at the laws of this country that protect employees, Liss Riordan said of Musk. "It appears that he's repeating same playbook of what he did at Tesla."
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