Twitter agreed to engage with fired staff from its only African office after they were offered poorer-than-announced severance packages. | News24_Business
Affected employees in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, have secured talks with Twitter after a letter sent requesting that the company comply with local employment law, according to a lawyer representing the staff. Around 20 people worked in the West African country’s office.
“We look to begin negotiations as soon as practicable,” the attorney, Carla Olympio, said in an email Tuesday. Elon Musk, who acquired the company for $44 billion last month, fired nearly all of the African team as part of sweeping cuts - eliminating a division that had been seen as part of Twitter’s future. President Nana Akufo-Addo had tweeted in April last year that the office marked “the beginning of a beautiful relationship between Twitter and Ghana.
Since Musk took over, thousands of staff around the world have been fired or walked out. In Accra, an initial termination letter said employees would receive a month’s notice, which later improved to a month’s notice plus two months severance. Regarding Twitter’s reduction in force, unfortunately there is no choice when the company is losing over $4M/day.Everyone exited was offered 3 months of severance, which is 50% more than legally required.
“You can’t compel anyone to treat people with respect but you have to obey the law,” said Olympio, who heads Agency Seven Seven, an Accra-based business advisory company. Ghana’s employment minister, Ignatius Baffour-Awuah, has met with the affected employees. A ministry official declined to immediately comment when reached by phone.In times of uncertainty you need journalism you can trust. For 14 free days, you can have access to a world of in-depth analyses, investigative journalism, top opinions and a range of features. Journalism strengthens democracy. Invest in the future today. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month.
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