Laid-off employees at Twitter's Africa headquarters are accusing Twitter of 'deliberately and recklessly flouting the laws of Ghana' and trying to 'silence and intimidate' them after they were fired.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Laid-off employees at Twitter's Africa headquarters are accusing Twitter of"deliberately and recklessly flouting the laws of Ghana" and trying to"silence and intimidate" them after they were fired.comply with the West African nation's labor laws, provide them with additional severance pay and other relevant benefits, in line with what other Twitter employees will receive.
Twitter laid off all but one of the African employees just four days after the company opened a physical office in the capital Accra following Musk's takeover. But the staff of about a dozen were not offered severance pay, which they say is required by Ghana's labor laws, based on their employment contracts. They also claim they were not informed about the next steps — unlike employees in the United States and Europe — until a day after CNN reported on their situation.
The Accra-based team accuses Twitter of dealing with them in bad faith, not being transparent, and discriminating against them compared to laid-off employees in other jurisdictions.
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