This is the 1A podcast.

I'm Jen White and you're listening to the news roundup.

Job numbers rose last month, but so did unemployment.

It's a mixed bag of a job's report less than a week from the elections.

It's a high-stakes midterm season and last week's attack on the husband of House Speaker

Nancy Pelosi has cast a poll over the proceedings.

The assault has already become mired in conspiracy theories spread by several prominent figures,

including the new head of Twitter.

And that's where we start today as a massive round of layoffs prompts a class action lawsuit.

Alex Heath is deputy editor at the Virginie Joins Is Now.

Alex, welcome.

Hi, thanks for having me.

So on Thursday, a group of former Twitter employees sued the company for violating California

workplace law.

And that's because new owner Elon Musk plans to eliminate half of Twitter's workforce

and is apparently already started cutting jobs.

So we know about his plans to clear house in the implications of this lawsuit.

Yeah, the lawsuit was filed shortly after an unsigned memo was sent inside Twitter.

The first real communication employees have received since Musk took the company over

a week ago, saying that the company is going to go through a global reduction in its workforce.

And while the memo didn't say the scope of the cuts, I'm hearing it's roughly half of

Twitter's workforce.

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