Elon Musk might be the new owner of the social media giant, Twitter Inc, but he sure isn’t getting off on the right footing.
The company has recently been sued through a class action lawsuit that seeks to prohibit the firm from laying off over 50% of its staff as planned.
Rumors of impending staff retrenchment have always been a major fear since the negotiations leading to the completion of the $44 billion company. According to several reports, Musk started firing the projected 3700 staff on Friday, a move that has drawn criticism from observers across the board.
The class action lawsuit was filed by Shannon Liss-Riordan, the attorney who also took Elon Musk and his electric automaker offshoot, Tesla Inc to court back in June when 10% of the workforce was laid off at the time. Though Liss-Riordan lost the suit at the time, she is confident that Musk cannot continue to thump his feet on the law everywhere he goes.
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