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A great American tradition literally since its founding.
Donato granted Twitter’s request to force the five ex-employees to pursue their claims individually, citing agreements they signed with the company.

While we're banning non-competes, lets add arbitration clauses to the fire. >

california got started but the law isnt that wide reaching 
"As of January 1, 2020, per AB 51, California employers will no longer be able to require employees to sign mandatory arbitration agreements forcing discrimination, harassment and wage claims into arbitration. Applicants and employees may choose not to sign such agreements, and the employer may not retaliate."
that said, this law isnt retroactive so apparently any agreements signed before 2020 apply >

Told an employer I wouldn't sign one in my onboarding paperwork and they rescinded the job offer.  So much for no retaliation.  They laid 10% of the company off the next month so I dodged a bullet. >

Then sue. What they did is illegal. >

It is a law which doesn't have teeth.  Suing is a waste of my time and money. >

No, you give it teeth by suing that's how the US system works.
Edit: Three people replied with the same thing so I'm just editing this to reply.
Most labour lawyers in the US work on a percentage of your winnings and won't charge you if they lose.
The law for labour is so much in your favour that they can do that as a standard mode of operation.
Don't psyche yourself out of being treated they way you deserve. >

I think the teeth would be to outlaw completely such clauses to avoid putting the potential employee in the position to be denied the job for not signing it. >

Didn't it used to be that way and they did a campaign to sway public opinion until they could remove it. I remember something in public school reading about how ridiculous lawsuits were. You know as a classroom activity. Like the lady who got third degree burns on her crotch from McDonald's super hot coffee. But they sold it and we voted our power away like dumbshits and now we want the laws back.   
Never give power back to employers. People died to get those rights. The whole removing regulations push... So dumb. >

I realize that you understand that the McDonald’s lawsuit wasn’t frivolous but for those who don’t know IT WAS SO HOT THAT IT FUSED HER LABIA TOGETHER >

The pictures are horrific. Skin graphs, extended hospital time. 
But more over it's a jury process.
The jury makes the the call based on evidence given. It may sound outrageous on the outside but a jury agreed it wasn't. 
Until we said naw. We don't want the power to punish giant corporations for wrong or careless doing. >

There are lawyers that batch arbitration cases en-masse. Bet a bunch already reached out to them. >

Yeah I question whether this benefits twitter.  Some people who would have joined the class may drop out now but so many lawyers will still be looking to represent these claims and twitter is now going to have to bear the expense of litigating each one of these individually and paying an arbitration company for each one. >

From a friend who was part of it tells me that the cost benefit of the severance they lost out on vs individual lawyer fees and generally dealing with this is not worth it for many.  He and a few other colleagues that he knows are just dropping off. The class action gave them the option to not be involved and pool lawyer fees (which were going to be a % of the entire amount). >

What about small claims court? Its been a while, but there’s a limit (5-10k) you can get. And if the defendant doesn’t show, the plaintiff auto-wins. And they have a pretty anti-corporate bias. And they might be able to sue multiple times.
Tell your friend you can make a quick 10k in half a days work. Better than nothing. But it might make you ineligible for future settlements. >

Totally off topic, but what is up with that lady's cigarette in the pic?  Is she smoking a curly fry!? >

She’s just gesturing with her hand.  There is a display behind the glass that lights up with the address.  There are other lit up art displays throughout the office as well.  
pic >

/r/Confusing_Perspective >

Imagine being suddenly laid off, not being given the full severance you were owed, and then being told you need to hire a lawyer and go through the process alone... against a billion-dollar company......
If any of them individually pursue and win their lawsuit, it will be years before they see a dime and they'll end up paying more in laywer fees than their total severance pay is worth. 
And who says the American Dream is dead... >

Musk isn’t paying out on anything. Even rent for Twitter buildings.
This is going to drag out until Twitter declares bankruptcy and the workers won’t see anything. >

which is asinine.  I heard on the Opening Arguments podcast that they only had a month left on their lease, about 60k worth of rent, and the deposit they stand to lose for non-payment is itself something like 700k.  It's a fucking rocks-for-brains business move. >

So you are saying it is totally on brand for Elon's behavior since he took over at Twitter. >

I just can't believe he managed to convince so many people he was smart for so long. >

He kept putting smart people in charge of the actual work getting done at SpaceX and to skme extent Tesla, except that one time when he decided that covid wasn't real and that building cars was more important than the lifes and health of his employees, and then he was forced to go through with the twitter sale that he only meant as a stupid meme and instantly got rid of everyone who could have been able to tell him how incredibly stupid every single word is that leaves his mouth. >

If this isn’t advertisement for unions, I dunno what is. Im here for it >

Unions, and strong labor laws strictly enforced. >

And to get those strong labor laws we need unions >

Arbitration agreements need to be outlawed >

No! Using the justice system for anyone other than corporation's benefit is communism!!! >

The goal being to make a bunch of lawyers richer.