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– –<\/span> Following his purchase of Twitter, Elon Musk laid off a large number of Twitter workers, including those working in Ghana.<\/p>\n The sacked workers at Twitter\u2019s Africa office are now accusing the company of \u201cdeliberately and carelessly flouting Ghanaian regulations\u201d and attempting to \u201csuppress and intimidate\u201d them after they were fired.<\/p>\n As a result, the team engaged a lawyer and filed a letter to the firm requesting that it follow Ghana\u2019s labor regulations and give them extra severance pay and other applicable benefits, similar to what other Twitter workers would get.<\/p>\n – –<\/span> READ ALSO:\u00a0Twitter Employees Sue Company Over Elon Musk\u2019s Plan To Lay Off 3,700<\/p>\n They also petitioned the Ghanaian government, according to CNN, to require Twitter to \u201cadhere to the laws of Ghana on redundancy and grant the workers a fair and equitable negotiation and redundancy compensation.\u201d<\/p>\n – –<\/span> The letter to Ghana\u2019s Chief Labour Officer also stated that \u201cit is clear that Twitter, Inc., under Mr Elon Musk is either deliberately or recklessly flouting Ghanaian laws, is operating in bad faith, and is seeking to silence and intimidate former employees into accepting any terms unilaterally thrown at them.\u201d<\/p>\n Following Musk\u2019s acquisition, Twitter laid off approximately a dozen African staffers barely four days after opening a physical presence in Accra. According to the laid-off employees, they were not granted severance compensation, which they claim is required by Ghanaian labor regulations based on their employment contracts.<\/p>\n \u201cThey also allege that, unlike workers in the United States and Europe, they were not told about the following measures until a day after CNN reported on their issue,\u201d CNN correspondent Larry Madowo stated during the news bulletin in the video below.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n – –<\/span>
\n<\/p>\nFormer Twitter Africa HQ workers are threatening to sue the world\u2019s wealthiest man, Elon Musk, over how they were sacked from the firm.<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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