Former Twitter Africa HQ workers are threatening to sue the world’s wealthiest man, Elon Musk, over how they were sacked from the firm.
Following his purchase of Twitter, Elon Musk laid off a large number of Twitter workers, including those working in Ghana.
The sacked workers at Twitter’s Africa office are now accusing the company of “deliberately and carelessly flouting Ghanaian regulations” and attempting to “suppress and intimidate” them after they were fired.
As a result, the team engaged a lawyer and filed a letter to the firm requesting that it follow Ghana’s labor regulations and give them extra severance pay and other applicable benefits, similar to what other Twitter workers would get.
They also petitioned the Ghanaian government, according to CNN, to require Twitter to “adhere to the laws of Ghana on redundancy and grant the workers a fair and equitable negotiation and redundancy compensation.”
The letter to Ghana’s Chief Labour Officer also stated that “it is clear that Twitter, Inc., under Mr Elon Musk is either deliberately or recklessly flouting Ghanaian laws, is operating in bad faith, and is seeking to silence and intimidate former employees into accepting any terms unilaterally thrown at them.”
Following Musk’s acquisition, Twitter laid off approximately a dozen African staffers barely four days after opening a physical presence in Accra. According to the laid-off employees, they were not granted severance compensation, which they claim is required by Ghanaian labor regulations based on their employment contracts.
“They also allege that, unlike workers in the United States and Europe, they were not told about the following measures until a day after CNN reported on their issue,” CNN correspondent Larry Madowo stated during the news bulletin in the video below.