Twitter Hit With Back Pay Suit From NYC Office’s Fired Cleaners

Former cleaners at Twitter Inc.'s Manhattan office say the company owes them back wages because it failed to comply with a New York City law when it canceled their contract.

Nearly a dozen people who provided office cleaning services for the social media platform through a contractor lost their jobs when Twitter “abruptly terminated” the contract last year, according to the complaint filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. The Displaced Building Service Workers Protection Act required Twitter to retain the workers in some form, but the company failed to do so, the ...