Laid-Off Twitter Workers Remain in Limbo Over Severance Pay
- Employees have heard nothing about severance over two months
- Musk rapidly cut costs after warning of possible bankruptcy
Twitter headquarters in San Francisco.
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Twitter Inc. employees who were laid off shortly after Elon Musk took over are still awaiting details of their severance packages months after being let go, leading to further legal trouble for the new owner.
Musk laid off roughly 50% of Twitter’s more than 7,000 employees on Nov. 4, just a week after taking control of the company. Almost 1,000 of those who were terminated lived in California, according to documents filed with the state. Those workers were required under state and federal law to keep receiving regular paychecks over the past two months.