Former employee sues Twitter, claiming more women than men were fired | US news

Two women who lost their jobs on Twitter after Elon Musk took office are suing the company, claiming that recent layoffs unfairly affected female employees.

About half of employees in social media networks are I gave up early last month After Musk bought the company for $44 billion,

He then told those remaining that they needed to work at “High strength”.

“To build a groundbreaking Twitter 2.0 going forward and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we need to be very hardcore,” he said in a message.

“This means spending long hours at high intensity. Only exceptional performance counts.”

The lawsuit alleges that these requirements disproportionately affected women who “often care for children and other family members and are unable to meet such demands.”

A lawsuit filed on behalf of former employees Carolina Bernal Strifling and Willow Len Turkal, citing a spreadsheet, compared 57% of female employees to dismissal on Nov. 4. , 47% of male employees claimed to have been laid off.

The gap is even wider for women in engineering-related roles, with 63% said to have been laid off compared to 48% for men.

The lawsuit was filed by prominent labor rights attorney Shannon Rhys Riordan.

Liss-Riordan said, “Mass layoffs on Twitter affect female employees much more than male employees, and to a very statistically significant extent. ” writes.

Rhys-Riordan said outside federal court in San Francisco that he wanted to show that “the richest man in the world is not above the law.”

She added: “We argue that the arbitration agreement (signed by Twitter staff) is unenforceable.

“But if I have to do arbitration one by one, I am ready to do it.”

Twitter has not yet responded to Sky News’ request for comment.

Earlier this week, it was reported that: bedroom was installed at Twitter’s San Francisco office.