Elon Musk sued for violating anti-discrimination law, targeting women in 'mass termination' at Twitter
A new class-action lawsuit claims that layoffs at Twitter following Elon Musk's ownership of the digital company unfairly and disproportionately targeted women. The lawsuit was filed on Wednesday, December 7.
Carolina Bernal Strifling and Willow Wren Turkal, two ex-employees, claim in a lawsuit that women were purposefully singled out for termination after Musk took over the company in October. "The mass termination of employees at Twitter has impacted female employees to a much greater extent than male employees – and to a highly statistically significant degree," the complaint states, reported Law and Crime. "Moreover, Elon Musk has made a number of publicly discriminatory remarks about women, further confirming that the mass termination’s greater impact on female employees resulted from discrimination."