Twitter dispenses with a software engineer and meta Group announces the dismissal of 11 thousand employees
A former engineer at Twitter accused the company of firing him days after Elon Musk owned it because he developed a tool that allows users to save important documents in anticipation of a mass dismissal, according to a report published by Reuters.
Engineer Emmanuel Cornet filed a complaint with the US National Labor Relations Board on Monday, indicating that he was involved in legal activity when he sent the tool program on an internal messaging platform on Twitter.
Cornet, who was based in San Francisco, explained in the complaint that he was fired on the first of November, a few days before about half of Twitter's 7,500 employees were fired in order to cut costs by Musk, who is the richest person in the world.
Cornet and 4 other Twitter employees filed a lawsuit in federal court in California last Friday, accusing the social media company Twitter of violating and violating federal and California laws that urge employers to issue a 60-day notice before a mass dismissal of workers.
The new owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, said in a series of tweets last Friday that Twitter users who were fired were offered a severance package for 90 days, which may fulfill Twitter's obligations under the notice laws.
Cornet explained in the complaint that late last month, amid some rumors of mass layoffs at Twitter, he developed a tool running on the Google Chrome browser that allows Twitter employees to download emails from their Twitter mail accounts.
He added that this would ensure the user's ability to save important documents such as statements, performance reviews, and other human resources documents that reflect the fruit of their effort at Twitter.
Cornet explains that he was arbitrarily fired the same day he posted a link to a gadget on an internal messaging channel on Twitter. As a result, Twitter removed the link later that day.
If Cornet wins a complaint against Twitter, he could be reinstated and compensated.
In the footsteps of Twitter.. Meta Group announces the dismissal of 11 thousand employees
In other news, the "meta" group, the owner of Facebook, announced that it will dismiss more than 11 thousand of its users, in what it considered "the most difficult changes in its history," according to the group's president Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday.
Zuckerberg explained that these dismissals affect 13% of the workforce in the "meta" group, and this will affect its research laboratory, which focuses on the Metaverse project, in addition to its applications, including Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram.
This field of technology is currently experiencing a very serious recession; while several large companies have announced the dismissal of large numbers of their users, such as the new owner of the Twitter platform Elon Musk recently came out last week laying off 50% of the company's users.
"I want to take responsibility for these decisions and how we got here," the head of the meta Zuckerberg group gave a message to his users.
"I know this is difficult for everyone, and I am especially sorry for those who were affected" by these decisions, he added.
This included the suffering of several ad-supported platforms-such as Facebook and Google - from the budget cuts of advertisers in light of what the world knows. Inflation and rising interest rates.
Zuckerberg explained that he expected a continuation of e-commerce and online activity, which experienced a boom during the covid-19 pandemic, and explained this by saying, "but I miscalculated, and I take responsibility for it".
The "meta" group witnessed a decrease in its profits, which was close to 4.4 billion dollars in the last quarter of this year, a decrease of 52% year-on-year.