US women sue Elon Musk’s Twitter alleging discriminatory layoffs


Former Twitter employee Wren Turkal, foreground, speaks during a news conference outside of a federal courthouse in San Francisco, on Dec 8, 2022. Turkal is one of the former Twitter employees suing the company in federal court after losing their jobs when billionaire Elon Musk took over. — AP

Two women who lost their jobs at Twitter when billionaire Elon Musk took over are suing the company in US federal court, claiming that last month’s abrupt mass layoffs disproportionately affected female employees.

The discrimination lawsuit is the latest in a series of legal challenges over Musk's decimation of Twitter’s workforce through mass layoffs and firings.

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