{"id":10213,"date":"2023-05-30T11:38:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T09:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/30\/twitter-janitors-in-new-york-file-lawsuit-over-firings-and-demand-backpay\/"},"modified":"2023-05-30T11:38:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T09:38:02","slug":"twitter-janitors-in-new-york-file-lawsuit-over-firings-and-demand-backpay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/30\/twitter-janitors-in-new-york-file-lawsuit-over-firings-and-demand-backpay\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter janitors in New York file lawsuit over firings and demand backpay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suit alleges social media company violated city law when janitors were abruptly fired in December after Elon Musk took over<\/p>\n<p>Former janitors at Twitter offices in New York City filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the social media company over their abrupt termination in December 2022 after billionaire Elon Musk took over the company and cut <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/04\/12\/tech\/elon-musk-bbc-interview-twitter-intl-hnk\/index.html#:~:text=Elon%20Musk%20has%20laid%20off,a%20rare%20interview%20late%20Tuesday.\">approximately 80% <\/a>of staff.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit alleges Twitter violated the Displaced Building Service Workers Protection Act by failing to retain the janitors after terminating the contract, hiring a new contractor, and not retaining the employees under the previous contract.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/may\/30\/twitter-janitors-new-york-city-lawsuit-firing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e8c7f2660647727951d38a46608c4ffde7400654\/0_99_3376_2026\/master\/3376.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=dcc0e33b8a267bdfc0d218759720bf1c\" title=\"Twitter janitors in New York file lawsuit over firings and demand backpay\" \/>Suit alleges social media company violated city law when janitors were abruptly fired in December after Elon Musk took over<br \/>\nFormer janitors at Twitter offices in New York City filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the social media company over their abrupt termination in December 2022 after billionaire Elon Musk took over the company and cut approximately 80% of staff.<br \/>\nThe lawsuit alleges Twitter violated the Displaced Building Service Workers Protection Act by failing to retain the janitors after terminating the contract, hiring a new contractor, and not retaining the employees under the previous contract. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suit alleges social media company violated city law when janitors were abruptly fired in December after Elon Musk took over Former janitors at Twitter offices in New York City filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the social media company over their abrupt termination in December 2022 after billionaire Elon Musk took over the company and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/30\/twitter-janitors-in-new-york-file-lawsuit-over-firings-and-demand-backpay\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Twitter janitors in New York file lawsuit over firings and demand backpay<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10213"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}