Amidst employee layoffs at Twitter, its employees filed a class action suit against the New Twitter CEO, Elon Musk, according to the Reuters report.

More than half of Twitter employees were supposed to be laid off on November 4, Friday.

In response to the layoffs, Twitter employees filed a class-action lawsuit against Musk in San Francisco federal court on Thursday. The suit argues that Twitter is violating federal and California laws by laying off employees without enough notice.

The action specifically refers to the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, which restricts large companies from mounting mass layoffs without at least 60 days of advance notice. Renowned civil rights attorney Lisa Bloom argued that Musk has completely ignored the law, which applies to all California employers of more than 75 employees.

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Shannon Liss-Riordan, the attorney who filed the class-action lawsuit on Nov. 3, said that all Twitter employees should be aware of their rights. The employees “should not sign away their rights and that they have an avenue for pursuing their rights,” the attorney noted.

“We filed this lawsuit tonight in an attempt the make sure that employees are aware that they should not sign away their rights and that they have an avenue for pursuing their rights," Shannon Liss-Riordan, the attorney who filed Thursday’s complaint, said in an interview.