Twitter Layoffs: Two female employees who lost their jobs at Twitter when Elon Musk took over are suing the firm in a US court, saying that the sudden mass layoffs unfairly impacted female workers.
Days after Musk, the richest man in the world, paid $44 billion to purchase the social networking site, a mass layoff started. Twitter informed nearly half of staff on November 4 that they no longer have a job but will earn three months’ severance.
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Women claim the layoffs targeted them specifically
In response to the widespread layoffs, which two women claim were directed specifically at them, they have now launched a lawsuit. In spite of Twitter employing more males overall prior to the layoffs, the case filed in a federal court in San Francisco claims that 57% of female employees were let go, compared to less than half of male employees.
Women, who “are more frequently caregivers for children and other family members, and hence are unable to comply with such requests,” according to the lawsuit, were also disproportionately disadvantaged.
Carolina Bernal Strifling and Willow Wren Turkal, two former employees, brought the action on behalf of other female employees in a similar situation.
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Statements of the female employees
Liss-Riordan wrote, “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.”
She continued, “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.”
Elon Musk dismissed engineers who questioned or criticised him, and all remaining employees were given the option to resign with severance pay or sign a contract committing “very rigorous” effort, long hours, and dedication to Twitter’s new path. The layoffs continued into November. After the deadline, a large number more quit.
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