Twitter engineer says he was 解雇する／砲火／射撃d for helping coworkers who 直面するd layoffs
By Daniel Wiessner
Nov 8 (Reuters) - A former Twitter Inc engineer has （刑事）被告 the company of 解雇する／砲火／射撃ing him days after it was acquired by Elon Musk because he developed a 道具 to 許す 労働者s to save important 文書s in 予期 of 集まり layoffs.
The engineer, Emmanuel Cornet, とじ込み／提出するd a （民事の）告訴 with the U.S. 国家の Labor Relations Board on Monday （人命などを）奪う，主張するing he was engaged in 保護するd activity when he 株d the ソフトウェア on an 内部の Twitter messaging channel.
"保護するd activities" are 活動／戦闘s that 労働者s can take without 恐れる of 雇用者 報復 under U.S. labor 法律.
Twitter did not すぐに 答える／応じる to a request for comment on the （民事の）告訴.
Cornet, who was based in San Francisco, said in the （民事の）告訴 that he was 解雇する／砲火／射撃d on Nov. 1, a few days before Twitter began laying off about half of its 7,500 従業員s in a cost-cutting 企て，努力，提案 by Musk, the world's richest person.
Cornet and four other Twitter 従業員s had とじ込み／提出するd a 訴訟 in California 連邦の 法廷，裁判所 on Friday 告発する／非難するing the social マスコミ company of 侵害する／違反するing 連邦の and California 法律s 要求するing 雇用者s to give 60 days' notice before engaging in 集まり layoffs.
Musk in a 一連の tweets on Friday said Twitter 労働者s who were laid off were 申し込む／申し出d 90 days of severance 支払う／賃金, which could 満足させる Twitter's 義務s under the notice 法律s.
Cornet in the （民事の）告訴 said that late last month, まっただ中に 噂するs of 集まり layoffs at Twitter, he developed a Google Chrome 拡張 to 許す 従業員s to download emails from their Twitter accounts. That would 確実にする 労働者s could save important 文書s such as 声明s 反映するing their 在庫／株 in Twitter, 業績／成果 reviews, and other human 資源 文書s, he sai d.
Cornet says he was 解雇する／砲火／射撃d on the same day that he published the 拡張 and 地位，任命するd a link to it on an 内部の Twitter messaging channel. Twitter 除去するd the link later that day, によれば the （民事の）告訴.
If the NLRB 問題／発行するs a （民事の）告訴 against Twitter and 最終的に 支配するs for Cornet, it could order that he be 復帰させるd with backpay and that the company 地位，任命する a notice 知らせるing 従業員s of their 権利s under 連邦の labor 法律. (報告（する）／憶測ing by Daniel Wiessner in Albany, New York, Editing by Alexia Garamfalvi and Rosalba O'Brien)
