X Loses Bid for Early End to Twitter Worker Layoff Notice Case

X Corp. failed to persuade a federal judge to throw out a former worker’s claims that the layoffs following Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover lacked required notice.

The ex-employee’s California and federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act claims involve genuine factual disputes over whether he lost his job for cause, which wouldn’t require notice, or as part of a mass layoff, which would, the US District Court for the Northern District of California said in a brief docket-only order Wednesday denying X’s bid for summary judgment.

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