Twelve employees of Twitter who were headquartered in Ghana, the company’s only office in Africa, refused the layoff package that was provided to them, and they are now thinking about pursuing legal action.
Twitter intends to negotiate the layoff package and termination procedure, according to the newsmen’s legal counsel, but it did not specify how it will do so.
The layoffs were a part of Elon Musk, the new bossglobal ,’s employee purge. The workers, who requested anonymity, claim that they have been taken advantage of. To pressure Twitter to abide by the nation’s redundancy regulations, they have recruited attorneys to open communication with Ghana’s labor authorities.
According to local legislation, employees who are laid off must receive redundancy pay and three months’ notice, as contrast to the less than a month Twitter employees in Ghana received when they were informed that their “final day of employment will be 4 December 2022.”
After being denied access to work emails, Ghana staff members received information about the expiration of their contracts on their personal accounts.
Twitter allegedly gave them less than the three months’ worth of severance pay that Elon Musk had promised them.
The Ghanaian employees are also requesting other perks in their demand notice, including health insurance, stocks, shares, and accrued unpaid leave allowances.