Twitter’s Lawyers Admit They’re Overwhelmed; 2000 Laid Off Employees File Claims

Re:Twitter’s Lawyers Admit They’re Overwhelmed; 2000 Laid Of... by pjc50 on Monday June 19, 2023 @11:08AM (#36391916)

Only some places and people have the weird US "at will" condition. Others have contracts, in which people must be given notice, and failing to do so is breach of contract. Some places have legally required redundancy processes, which have not been followed.

(A particular example: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/elon-musk-apologizes-to-di... - as a senior employee of a company acquired by Twitter, he had some sort of golden handcuff contract which guaranteed him a large payment if he was ever fired)

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Re:Twitter’s Lawyers Admit They’re Overwhelmed; 2000 Laid Of... by phpisthebest on Monday June 19, 2023 @11:16AM (#36392028)

Well given the story is from a US News Site, talking about a US law firm, about arbitration happening in the US, it seems the laws of the US are what is in play here, and in the US we do have at will employment.

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Re:Twitter’s Lawyers Admit They’re Overwhelmed; 2000 Laid Of... by wholinator2 on Monday June 19, 2023 @11:59AM (#36392578)

I keep finding conflicting information on this. It looks to me like all 50 states do have at-will employement, except when they don't. Which appears to be a long list of strange and specific exemptions. Do we know what jurisdiction these firings occurred under and whether anyone has an actual case due to these exemptions?

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Re:Twitter’s Lawyers Admit They’re Overwhelmed; 2000 Laid Of... by ImPostingOnHN on Monday June 19, 2023 @09:43PM (#36398732)

employment contracts override at-will employment

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