Twitter Staff are fired and Rebel in Ghana

Laid-off employees at Twitter’s Africa headquarters are accusing Twitter of “deliberately and recklessly flouting the laws of Ghana” and trying to “silence and intimidate” them after they were fired. The team has hired a lawyer and sent a letter to the company demanding it comply with the West African nation’s labour laws, provide them with additional severance pay and other relevant benefits, in line with what other Twitter employees will receive. According to a letter to the country’s Chief Labour Officer obtained by CNN, the African employees rejected a “Ghana Mutual Separation Agreement” from Twitter, which they say was sent to their personal emails offering final pay that the company claims to have been arrived at after a negotiation. Twitter laid off all but one of the African employees just 4 days after the company opened a physical office in the capital Accra following Musk’s takeover. But the staff of about a dozen were not offered severance pay, which they say is required by Ghana’s labor laws, based on their employment contracts. They also claim they were not informed about the next steps — unlike employees in the US and Europe — until a day after CNN reported on their situation.