Twitter is being sued by former employees for Elon Musk’s mass firing

According to the lawsuit, workers weren’t given sufficient notice prior to their firing under both the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Acts (WARN) and the California WARN Act. These acts require companies to give at least 60 days notice to employees before mass firings take place.

The lawsuit was filed in an attempt to “make sure that employees are aware that they should not sign away their rights and that they have an avenue for pursuing their rights,” Shannon Liss-Riordan, the attorney who filed the complaint on Thursday night, Submitted Bloomberg.

The lawsuit was filed in San Francisco US District Court and named five plaintiffs. The suit notes that one of the plaintiffs named had already been fired at the time of filing, while three others had been locked out of company accounts — an action presumed to indicate they will soon be formally terminated.

One of the plaintiffs named in the suit, Manu Cornet, tweeted their participation: “Was not planning on doing anything like this initially… But… Look Ma I’m suing Twitter.”

Twitter notified employees on Friday, November 4th, in an unsigned memo that “in an effort to place [the company] on a healthy path,” it will be “reducing our global workforce.” Musk is expected to cut around half of Twitter’s estimated 7,500 staff as part of an effort to reduce the company’s costs.

This is not the first time Musk’s management style has led to class-action lawsuits. Two former employees at Tesla In June, the company was suedFor violating the WARN Act.

Twitter has not yet responded to our request for comment as of the publication.

The entire lawsuit can be viewed below.