Twitter Asks Court to Push Layoff Class Action Into Arbitration

Twitter Inc. asked a California federal judge to send a class action alleging violations related to the recent mass layoffs at the social media company into individual arbitration.

The laid-off workers who sued Twitter previously agreed to arbitrate any dispute arising out of their employment as part of their job offer packet, the company said in a brief filed late Monday.

“Here, Plaintiffs cannot dispute that they electronically signed their Agreements, their signatures appear on the Agreements, their signatures appear on their offer letters, and they could not have completed the process and been hired by Twitter without signing the ...