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Re:Twitter faces a class action lawsuit over mass employee l... by rich_sasha on Friday November 04, 2022 @03:16PM (#33472238)
Nitpick, but this kind of "paid but not working", also known as Garden Leave in the UK at least, often needs to be specified in the contract. Otherwise the employee could argue in some jurisdictions that this is demeaning behaviour etc.

No idea about the actual jurisdiction in question...

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Re:Twitter faces a class action lawsuit over mass employee l... by lupire on Friday November 04, 2022 @08:35PM (#33476264)
That's why European (and whatever UK is) employees were merely warned, and the US workers were laid off.
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