A few dozen Twitter workers based mostly in Ghana, which was the agency’s solely workplace in Africa, have rejected a severance bundle supplied to them and are actually contemplating taking authorized motion.
The layoffs had been a part of a world workers cull launched by new boss Elon Musk.
The staff, who spoke on situation of anonymity, argue that they’ve been short-changed. They’ve employed legal professionals to provoke talks with Ghana’s labour authorities with a view to forcing Twitter to stick to the nation’s legal guidelines on redundancy.
Underneath native legislation laid-off workers should be paid redundancy and must be given three months discover, versus below a month within the case of the Ghanaian workers of Twitter who’ve been instructed the “final day of employment shall be 4 December 2022”.
Ghana workers had been despatched messages in regards to the finish of their contracts to their private accounts, after being denied entry to work emails.
Twitter supplied them what they are saying was lower than the three months severance bundle that Elon Musk had mentioned workers would get.
Of their demand discover, the Ghana workers are additionally demanding different advantages corresponding to medical health insurance, shares, shares and unpaid depart allowances accrued to them.
Twitter is but to answer a BBC request for remark.
