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The ex-employees who left Twitter in November 2022 received severance agreements on January 8, 2023. Twitter cut over half of its 7,500 employees in the beginning of November 2022. Elon Musk, the new CEO, said that all departing employees received three months of severance pay, which is 50% more than what is needed by law. However, the ex-employees claim that they were only given their final two months’ pay through January 4th (the formal date of their termination), and that they were forced to wait to get a post-termination severance payout. Despite Musk’s assurance that they would receive an extra month of pay as severance, the employees contend that given what Twitter had already agreed to pay prior to Musk’s takeover, they are actually owed more. Bonuses, stock vesting, and other benefits that might reach tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars for each employee were also meant to be included in the severance package. The severance agreements that Twitter is offering are actually “settlement agreements,” according to Lisa Bloom, a principal attorney at The Bloom Firm in Los Angeles who is currently representing former Twitter employees. These agreements “SILENCE WORKERS FOR LIFE” and require them to give up significant legal rights.

Allegations have been made against Air India for allegedly not responding to a situation when a man on one of their planes allegedly urinated on a woman. According to a report in the Economic Times, as a result, the company would have to delay the implementation of their new human resources policy. According to reports, the airline’s acquisition deal with the government, signed in January 2022, prohibits it for a year from changing its “terms of employment.” The new human resources policy’s implementation has been delayed as a result, and it can now only go into effect after March 2023. According to the report, union resistance prevented the agreement from going into effect on January 1 as originally anticipated. Since the Tata group does not have a hiring-firing culture, a senior official from the company told the Economic Times, Air India has implemented indirect recognition programmes to reward customer-focused behaviour and accountability. The CEO added that the company is committed to putting the Tata Code of Conduct into practise by doing away with biases and prejudices within the workplace and encouraging staff to base decisions on facts and statistics rather than rumours and conjecture. According to reports, the airline’s management has finished drafting a new service agreement with major performance metrics and objectives. It was mentioned that increased accountability would make the move more efficient. In response to the recent drunk man incident, aviation regulatory body, the DGCA, has given the airline instructions to keep track of any passengers who have displayed disruptive behaviour and to add them to a “No-Fly-List.” The regulator further demanded that the airline notify their internal committee about the incident, which will have 30 days to decide how long the unruly passenger will be prohibited from flying, with options ranging from no days to a permanent ban.

Amazon is reportedly preparing to layoff 1,000 employees in India as part of organizational-wide role eliminations, CEO Andy Jassy announced in a statement on January 5, 2023. Given that Amazon employs 100,000 people in India, the 1,000 jobs that would be lost would account for 1% of all employment there. Jassy claims that the company disclosed its “painful choice” to eliminate many positions across its Devices and Books businesses in November. For a chosen number of PXT organisation employees, it also made a voluntary reduction offer. He also revealed the choice to eliminate 18,000 employees in 2023. Many teams will be impacted, but the PXT and Amazon Stores groups will see the majority of the roles terminated, he continued. The Amazon CEO continued by stating that although in theory the company would delay such statements until after speaking with anybody who might be impacted, the announcement had already been made as a result of an inside leak. He said the company would begin getting in touch with the impacted employees on January 18. “Normally, we hold off on discussing these results until we can get in touch with the people who will be directly impacted. But since one of our team members released this information to the outside world, we felt it would be preferable to break the news early so you could hear the specifics from me. Beginning on January 18, we plan to speak with affected workers (or, as appropriate in Europe, employee representation bodies),” said Jassy. Amazon has reported 18,000 job cuts, which are the company’s largest to date and more than other tech giants have disclosed, but the company still employs 1.5 million people worldwide, significantly more than any other internet company. Jassy says that Amazon has endured difficult and turbulent economies in the past and will do so in the future.