As Twitter employees face mass layoffs starting today, a group of them has sued new overlord Elon Musk for not giving proper termination notice under federal and California law.

The suit — read it here — comes as the platform has seen “a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers,” Musk said.

The lawsuit seeking class action status was filed in the Northern District of California in San Francisco by Emmanuel Cornet, Justine De Caires, Grae Kindel, Alexis Camacho, and Jessica Pan “individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated” against Twitter “for its violation and anticipated further violation” of federal law.

Cornet was terminated Nov. 1 without advanced written warning. Plaintiffs De Caires, Pan and Kindel were locked out of their Twitter accounts on Nov. 3, “which they understood to signal that they were being laid off.” The suit said the federal Warn Act and the California Warn Act...