Twitter layoffs

Twitter's roughly 7500 employees have been expecting layoffs since Musk took helm of the company. Already, Musk has fired top executives, including CEO ...

It alleges Twitter intends to lay off more employees and has violated the law by not providing the required notice. In the case of mass redundancy, Bartlett said the government also would have to be notified. “First, they want to make sure there is justification, and second that a nondiscriminatory process is used,” Rahbar, said. In July and August, that number dropped to roughly 200. The leaders said Musk promised to retain and enforce the election integrity measures already in place. That’s even though the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification statute requires employers with at least 100 workers to disclose layoffs involving 500 or more employees, regardless of whether a company is publicly traded or privately held. On Thursday night and Friday morning as the notices went out, many Twitter employees took to the platform to express support for each other — often simply tweeting blue heart emojis to signify its blue bird logo — and salute emojis in replies to each other. “When you lay off reportedly 50 percent of your staff — including teams who are in charge of actually tracking, monitoring and enforcing content moderation and rules — that necessarily means that content moderation has changed,” González said. The sweeping layoffs will jeopardize content moderation standards, according to a coalition of civil rights groups, who escalated their calls Friday for brands to pause advertising buys on the platform. At least one was filed Thursday in San Francisco alleging that Twitter intends to lay off more workers and has violated federal law by not providing the required notice. They and others tweeted messages of support using the hashtag #OneTeam. Musk hasn’t commented on the layoffs themselves.