Twitter Engineer Files Retaliation Complaint Over Job Cuts
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A software engineer terminated last week by Twitter Inc. amid job cuts ordered by new owner Elon Musk complained to the US labor board that he was illegally targeted because of his efforts to help fellow employees preserve messages from their work email accounts.
In a Monday filing with the National Labor Relations Board, Emmanuel Cornet said he was terminated Nov. 1, the same day he used a company Slack channel to share a Google Chrome extension he’d published. It was designed to help employees preserve messages regarding performance reviews or stock accumulation, which could be useful to challenge layoffs or make compensation demands. Twitter removed the Slack channel link, he said.