https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjknaq/twitter-employees-file-class-action-lawsuit-for-mass-layoffs-with-no-notice

Former Twitter employees are suing the company for the ongoing mass layoff, claiming that the company violated labor law and California state law for not providing advance notice or severance pay to terminated workers, according to a class action lawsuit filed in Federal court Thursday.

Elon Musk took control of Twitter last week after he couldn’t back out of his $44 billion purchase agreement. Thursday, the company began laying off roughly 3,700 employees—about 50 percent of its workforce, according to the lawsuit. Twitter announced in an email to all staff Thursday that they would receive an email by 9 a.m. PDT Friday: The email would go to their @twitter.com email address if they still have a job, and to their personal email if they were being laid off.