"Standing with her hand on a just-unboxed kitchen sink in an echo of Elon Musk’s now-infamous entrance as Twitter’s new owner, attorney Lisa Bloom said Monday she was taking legal action against the world’s richest man over how he went about laying off thousands of employees. Bloom, who operates out of Calabasas, said she would bring cases against the San Francisco company and Musk on behalf of Helen-Sage Lee, Adrian Trejo Nuñez and Amir Shevat, all former Twitter employees she said were unfairly and illegally impacted by last month’s mass layoffs that affected around half the company.

The cases are being brought in private arbitration instead of a public court since Twitter employees, even before Musk’s acquisition of the company, signed away their rights to a jury trial as part of their employment terms. Arbitrations can be kept private and are overseen by a third-party arbitrator, often a retired judge. Bloom said the three clients were not the only former Twitter employees she represented, and that some cases would allege civil rights violations. She said employees had been terminated while on parental, medical and other types of leave, and that the company discriminated in making the cuts based on gender and sexual orientation."

https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/Laid-off-Twitter-employees-announce-legal-action-17633014.php

*During a press conference, shyster Bloom claimed the employees were 'tricked' into signing away their rights.