carley: twitter is reportedly facing a class-action lawsuit as elon musk s mass layoffs begin this morning. todd: temporarily closing today and will alert employees of their status at 9 a.m. pacific time. you re watching fox and friends first, i m todd piro. carley: i m carley shimkus. elon musk will cut jobs via e-mail this morning, for half the workforce. in an effort to place twitter on a healthy task, we will reduce global workforce on friday. this will impact a number of individuals who made valuable contributions to twitter, this action is necessary to guarantee success moving forward. todd: that decision challenged in court. twitter employees are suing the company for violating law requiring 60 days notice of termination. twitter says internal communications, twitter is special, after four years i m leaving with the fullest heart, experiences i never imagined, my head is held high knowing i gave it my absolute all. break down what this is all about. lawyers a
settled because elon musk will pay the individuals, if he hasn t already, 60 days of severance fee. they will assign fees, he should have done this earlier, more communication, there will be a reason he will pay the lawyers to have this go away, that is how this works. carley: this is something elon musk said for a while, if he wants to make it profitable, heville to lay people off. it has to do with how much they pay their employees and the fact elon musk is known twitter employees made it clear, they have called him a threat to democracy, a term getting thrown around a lot lately, if you run a company, buy a company and change the company s direction, you want your own people in the company. i believe he s talking to some tesla folks to see if they can start working over on twitter,