Sources of Twitter workers in Spain They assured that they fear the “extinction” of the technological company’s workforce on the national territory, about thirty workers, and that they are organizing to seek legal advice.
The company’s workers’ sources informed Efe that all the company’s active workers in Spain received an email announcing that the jobs would be cut and urging them to wait until they receive a communication to the regard.
Employees also received a document providing information on the process such as possible compensation, applicable legislation or the number of affected people worldwide, which in about 50% of the total workforce.
The operating system of the company “Birdhouse” was momentarily taken offline while the changes were made, notes the same document.
Employee dismissals outside the United States, as in the case of Spain, will be governed by the national law of each country.
Twitter employees in Spain continue to have access to their computers, according to the same sources, although they suspect that they will all be fired and that the company’s management of the Spanish business will be diverted to Ireland.
Elon Musk, the new owner of the company, said Friday that the technology lose four million dollars a dayalthough he did not specify the total number of layoffs – the US press estimated them at over 3,700, representing more than half of its global workforce.
In his social media profile, Musk justified the layoffs by saying that “there is no other remedy when the company loses about four million a day.
The first sign of dismissal
On Friday 4, Twitter announced the layoff of “nearly 50%” of its 7,500 employees worldwide, a week after being acquired by the richest man on the planet, Elon Musk.
“About 50% of the workforce will be affected” for layoffs, it detects an email accessed by AFP, which was sent to Twitter employees who lost their jobs after the $ 44 billion purchase of the company.
Company employees had been called to stay home that Friday pending the round of layoffs, as part of a corporate restructuring initiated by Musk.
The Californian company communicated its decision to each employee by email and announced the temporary closure of the offices.
“As announced today, Twitter is downsizing to help improve the health of the company. These decisions are never easy and it is with regret that we write to inform you that your position on Twitter is affected. Today (Friday) is his. last day of work “, indicates one of the emails sent to employees to which the AFP has had access.
“I woke up to the news that I would no longer work on Twitter. My heart is broken. I don’t believe it“wrote Michele Austin, director of regulations for the United States and Canada, in his profile.
“Unfortunately, there is no other option when companies lose more than $ 4 million a day,” said Elon Musk in his first message on the subject, 24 hours after the first email the company sent to its employees.
“Everyone has been offered three months’ compensation those who have lost their jobs, “adds the tycoon’s tweet.
Workers have been preparing for downsizing since Musk completed his takeover of the company last week and has quickly moved on to dissolve its board of directors and fire its CEO and top managers.
Marketing and design managers and departments seem particularly impressed, according to a recently fired employee who asked for anonymity.
He fears that the new management will try to find ways to avoid paying severance pay to former employees, accusing them of professional misconduct.
“We would say mercenary tactics, they try at all costs to save, to the point of treating people in an inhumane way,” he complains.
On Thursday evening, five Twitter employees filed a class action lawsuit against the company for failing to receive the 60-day notice required by US law for mass layoffs, according to the text of the complaint consulted by the AFP.
One of them, Emmanuel Cornet, was fired for unexplained professional misconduct, even though he was among 5 to 10 percent of the company’s top engineers, according to lists that were revealed this week.
EFE and AFP agencies
Source: Clarin
