Women allege Twitter layoffs focused feminine employees, take Elon Musk to court docket

Women who misplaced their jobs at Twitter are suing billionaire Elon Musk in federal court docket alleging that the mass layoffs focused feminine staff.

New Delhi,UPDATED: Dec 9, 2022 07:39 IST

Two ladies who misplaced their jobs at Twitter when billionaire Elon Musk took over are suing the corporate in federal court docket. (Photo: AP)

By India Today Web Desk: Two ladies who misplaced their jobs at Twitter when Elon Musk took over are suing the corporate in US court docket, claiming that the abrupt mass layoffs disproportionately affected feminine staff.

The mass layoff started days after Musk, the world’s richest man, purchased the social media platform for $44 billion. Twitter knowledgeable about half of staff on November 4 that they now not have a job however would get three months severance.

Now two ladies have filed a lawsuit towards the mass layoffs that they allege focused feminine staff. The lawsuit filed in a San Francisco federal court docket alleges that 57% of feminine staff had been laid off, in comparison with fewer than half of males, regardless of Twitter using extra males total earlier than the layoffs.

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The lawsuit alleges that additionally disproportionately harmed ladies, “who are more often caregivers for children and other family members, and thus not able to comply with such demands,” AP reported.

The lawsuit was filed by former staff Carolina Bernal Strifling and Willow Wren Turkal on behalf of similarly-situated feminine staff.

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“The mass termination of employees at Twitter has impacted female employees to a much greater extent than male employees – and to a highly statistically significant degree,” Liss-Riordan wrote.

“Moreover, Elon Musk has made a number of publicly discriminatory remarks about women, further confirming that the mass termination’s greater impact on female employees resulted from discrimination,” she added.

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The layoffs continued all through November as Elon Musk fired engineers who questioned or criticized him and gave all remaining staff the selection to resign with severance or signal a kind pledging “extremely hardcore” work, lengthy hours and dedication to Twitter’s new path. Many extra resigned after the ultimatum.

(With inputs from AP)

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Dec 9, 2022