TikTok's assertion amid US staff' concern over job if it will get banned

Jan 15, 2025 03:56 PM IST

TikTok misplaced its authorized problem with the US Supreme Court docket, with a divest or get banned ruling on the social media platform.

TikTok has reassured its US staff on Tuesday that they might nonetheless have jobs even when the app goes darkish in a number of days because of a legislation there that claims the app could be banned if it would not get bought to US-based fingers.

The TikTok app is displayed on an iPhone display in Miami, Florida. US president Joe Biden signed a overseas support package deal that features a invoice that will ban TikTok if China-based dad or mum firm ByteDance fails to promote the app to an American firm inside a 12 months.

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“Employment, pay, and advantages are safe, and our workplaces will stay open, even when this case hasn’t been resolved earlier than the January 19 deadline,” a Enterprise Insider report quoted the corporate as saying in an inside memo.

It is because TikTok is a world platform and solely the US aspect could be impacted, the corporate added.

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Acknowledging that all the episode has been “unsettling for the corporate,” the memo additionally added that the TikTok management staff is planning for numerous situations because it seems at its subsequent potential steps.

This comes after TikTok misplaced its authorized problem with the US Supreme Court docket, with the ruling on the social media platform’s dad or mum firm ByteDance to both promote TikTok to a US purchaser or have it banned there being unlikely to be reversed.

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Nonetheless, there’s additionally the likelihood that Republican candidate and new President-elect Donald Trump could attempt to rescue the app after assuming workplace since he had pledged to take action whereas campaigning.