October 10, 2024
A California federal judge declined to rule Thursday on a request to certify a class of 115 ex-Twitter workers who claim they were booted without proper notice after Elon Musk acquired the company, saying he wanted more information after learning that most signed arbitration agreements.
October 04, 2024
In the coming week, attorneys should watch for potential final approval of a deal to resolve a class action alleging O'Reilly Auto Enterprises failed to pay for time workers spent in COVID-19 screenings. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
July 15, 2024
A California federal judge has rebuked both sides of a suit alleging Twitter violated federal labor laws amid a mass layoff in late 2022, ordering lead attorneys to attend a meet and confer session in August to work through ongoing conflicts that have arisen since the claims were filed in April 2023.
April 10, 2024
A California federal judge deferred ex-Twitter employees' request to depose X Corp. owner Elon Musk until after other defendants gave their depositions in a suit alleging the company violated federal laws requiring advance warning of mass layoffs.
June 05, 2023
An ex-Twitter employee told a California federal court that the company's faulty procedures prevented him from timely opting out of an arbitration clause and that his suit claiming Twitter failed to notify workers of incoming layoffs belongs in court.
May 15, 2023
Twitter told a California federal court that an ex-employee expressly agreed to individually arbitrate all claims arising from his employment, and that his claims over the company's 2022 mass layoffs did not belong in federal court.
April 14, 2023
An ex-Twitter employee hit Twitter with a putative class action Thursday alleging it violated the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act and California's Private Attorneys General Act by failing to notify employees of layoffs following Elon Musk's buyout, the latest in a wave of WARN lawsuits piling up against Twitter.