Two women who lost their jobs at Twitter when billionaire Elon Musk took ownership of the social network filed a lawsuit in federal court today against the company, claiming last month’s sudden mass layoffs disproportionately put female workers at risk.

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Former Twitter employees Karolina Bernal Striefling and Vila Ren Turkel filed a similar lawsuit on their behalf and on behalf of other female employees, who say 57 percent of the women were fired on Nov. 4. Men.

– This gap of women in engineering jobs is 63% fired, compared to 48% of men fired from engineering jobs – said employment rights lawyer Shannon Lees-Riordan.

As reported by the AP, she said Musk had previously “made a series of publicly discriminatory remarks about women, further confirming that the mass layoff’s greater impact on working women is the result of discrimination.”

The discrimination lawsuit is the latest in a series of lawsuits filed after Twitter’s mass layoffs, the AP reported.

The mass layoffs began a few days after Musk bought Twitter in April this year, when engineers who publicly criticized Musk were fired, and continued throughout November, with remaining employees offered to resign or sign three months’ severance pay. ” “Worked extremely hard and supported the company in a new direction, after which more than a dozen engineers lost their jobs, A.P.

(Tanjug)