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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Josh Taylor

Twitter sued by former staff as Elon Musk begins mass sackings

A Twitter sign is seen at the firm's headquarters in San Francisco, California.
A lawsuit has been filed in San Francisco seeking orders for Twitter to comply with the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act. Photograph: Constanza Hevia/AFP/Getty Images

Twitter is facing a class action lawsuit from former employees who say they were not given enough notice under US federal law that they had lost their jobs, finding out they had been let go when they were locked out of their work accounts on Thursday.

In a company-wide memo, staff were informed on Thursday that they would receive an email to their personal email accounts if they were being fired as part of the mass sackings at the platform in which up to half of the company could go.

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