Seven former Twitter employees are suing the website, now rebranded as X, for racial discrimination, age discrimination, and violations of the federal Family and Medical Leave Act in the wake of Elon Musk’s acquisition of the platform.
Rolling Stone,Omolade Ogunsanya, Nanci Sills, Krista Bessinger, and Ikuhiro Ihara are all suing X for terminating their employment following Musk’s “chaotic” acquisition of the company in 2022, which resulted in mass layoffs.
“Twitter’s mass termination has impacted employees in a number of protected categories to a much greater degree than other employees,” the suit, brought in the United States District Court in the Northern District of California, San Francisco division, states. “These categories include female, Black, and older employees, as well as employees who had recently taken or were preparing to take family or medical leave.
According to the suit, which was brought by attorneys at the Boston-based firm Lichten and Liss-Riordan, Weinberg was employed as a software engineer by Twitter for nearly a decade before she was laid off in November 2022. She had taken family leave to care for her disabled child, as well as medical leave less than a month before being terminated from the company.
The suit alleges that the November 2022 layoffs predominantly affected women, with 57 percent of Twitter employees laid off that month as opposed to 47 percent of male employees, a disparity that the suit deems “statistically significant.” Five of the plaintiffs are female and alleging gender discrimination, according to the suit.
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