Staff of Twitter in Africa that were sacked after billionaire Elon Musk bought the platform, have alleged that they have not been paid their severance package.
Elon Musk bought Twitter in October 2022 and started a series of layoffs that affected thousands of workers. In November, Twitter sacked almost all of its staff in Ghana, its only African location, days after its physical office opened after one year of remote working.
According to CNN, the terminated workers from Twitter’s office in Accra, Ghana, have not received severance pay after being sacked seven months ago. Reports have it that the former employees accepted Twitter’s offer to pay them three months’ worth of severance, the cost of returning foreign staff and legal expenses incurred during negotiations with Twitter but they have not gotten the money or any further communication.
Also, they revealed that they agreed to the severance package without benefits, even though it was below what colleagues elsewhere received.
While speaking to CNN, a former Twitter Africa employee, said: “They literally ghosted us. Although Twitter has eventually settled former staff in other locations, Africa staff have still been left in the lurch despite us eventually agreeing to specific negotiated terms.
Another former employer said: “Twitter was non-responsive until we agreed to the three months because we were all so stressed and exhausted and tired of the uncertainty, reluctant to take on the extra burdens of a court case so we felt we had no choice but to settle.”
Carla Olympio, the lawyer representing the former employees, said the last communication from Twitter or its lawyers was in May, shortly after the settlement was agreed.
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