Twitter laid off workers in Africa last year. They say they've been left without severance

Former Twitter employees successful Ghana, who were laid disconnected successful November, person been near without severance wage and person not heard from the institution for 3 months, sources told CNBC.

As portion of caller proprietor Elon Musk's cost-cutting efforts, Twitter fired astir each of the unit astatine its lone bureau successful Africa.

Following the announcement of the question of planetary occupation cuts, Musk tweeted successful November that "unfortunately determination is nary prime erstwhile the institution is losing implicit $4M/day."

"Everyone exited was offered 3 months of severance, which is 50% much than legally required," helium added, though it was unclear to which bureau and jurisdiction helium was referring.

Under Ghanaian employment law, unit indispensable beryllium paid redundancy and should beryllium granted 3 months' announcement earlier they are made redundant. Twitter's workers successful the superior Accra were fixed little than a month, according to the sources.

One erstwhile employee, who wished to stay anonymous owed to delicate quality of situation, told CNBC Monday that the workers requested compensation successful lieu of announcement and affectional distress damages arsenic portion of the negotiated colony with Twitter, but some were rejected.

"Twitter has dealt with america successful atrocious religion since we were laid disconnected successful November 2022. There was nary effort to adjacent negociate a severance with america until planetary quality started to study connected this, and aft we had approached the Labour Office successful Ghana," said different source, who besides spoke to CNBC connected information of anonymity owed to delicate quality of situation.

"It's been a tedious process and they rejected immoderate of our requests, which we thought were just fixed the circumstances and however we've been treated."

Through their ineligible representative, the employees yet reached retired to judge what they saw arsenic a watered down severance connection successful May, but person endured vigor soundlessness from Twitter since then.

"We played shot and accepted the connection that they made conscionable truthful we could determination guardant with our lives. However, they person wholly ignored america since our lawyer reached retired to theirs to judge the connection successful May. For galore of us, expenses owed person besides not been paid," the 2nd root added.

Twitter responded to CNBC's request for remark with an automated response.

The archetypal root besides told CNBC that "everyone is bushed and frustrated."

"This colony is not adjacent what was promised but we decided to conscionable judge it and that has been a struggle," they said.

"Some inactive haven't gotten jobs yet, person families to provender and this severance volition spell a agelong way, truthful having it delayed successful this [manner] is conscionable truthful sad."

Since Musk's $44 cardinal acquisition of the societal media level successful October, Twitter has mislaid astir fractional of its advertizing revenue and continues to make antagonistic currency flow, Musk said implicit the weekend, on with shouldering a important indebtedness pile.

The institution besides faces contention from caller Meta level Threads, which registered implicit 100 cardinal users successful its archetypal week successful operation.

Scott Galloway, prof of selling astatine New York University's Stern Business School, wrote connected Friday that Twitter past week "became MySpace: a societal web void of innovation being dilatory euthanized by Meta."

"The diminution successful gross is correlated to its simplification successful workforce, but not caused by it," Galloway added.