Twitter employees fired after Elon Musk’s takeover have finally got their severance payment after two months of waiting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But the compensation<\/a><\/strong> is much less than expected and people were told through a spam email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hundreds of staff who lost their jobs during Elon Musk\u2019s first round of layoffs said they received a message from “twitterseparation@cptgroup.com.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n READ MORE: MORE THAN 200 MILLION TWITTER ACCOUNTS HACKED AND POSTED ONLINE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Sources said the email is not related to any of the company\u2019s internal departments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The message directed them to a CPT Group website where they could view the complete separation agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The website<\/a><\/strong> stated: “As you know, we’ve had to reduce our global workforce to ensure the company’s success moving forward, and your employment has been impacted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Since we notified you of your status, you’ve remained in non-working notice, employed, and on payroll, and this will continue through your separation date. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYou are also eligible to receive additional severance if you sign a separation agreement and release.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Need Career Advice?<\/strong> Get employment skills advice at all levels of your career<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n One person who got the agreement told Insider that they will join one of the ongoing lawsuits against the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hundreds of other affected employees have already opted to take legal<\/a><\/strong> action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The payments were only sent to those who were either fired or resigned around November 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sources said those who quit a few weeks later over Musk’s “hardcore Twitter 2.0<\/strong><\/a>” email had so far did not receive an agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Twitter\u2019s one month of severance stands in stark contrast to Facebook and Snap which have given six months and four months of severance respectively during the 2022 mass layoffs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Source:<\/strong> Insider<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow us on YouTube<\/strong><\/a>, Twitter<\/strong><\/a>, LinkedIn<\/strong><\/a>, and Facebook<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fired Twitter employees finally got the severance agreement after two months of waiting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2456,1065,1372],"tags":[686,977,329],"class_list":["post-34509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-twitter-news","category-us-business-news","category-us-employment-news","tag-elon-musk","tag-layoffs","tag-twitter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}