TikTok plans to maintain paying U.S. workers even when the Supreme Courtroom doesn’t overturn a regulation that may power the sale of the short-video app within the U.S. or ban it, the corporate’s management stated in an inner memo reviewed by Reuters on Tuesday.
The massively in style platform is owned by China-based ByteDance and has 7,000 workers within the U.S.
“I cannot emphasize enough that your well-being is a top priority and so most importantly, I want to reinforce that as employees in the US, your employment, pay, and benefits are secure, and our offices will remain open, even if this situation hasn’t been resolved before the January 19 deadline,” the memo to TikTok workers stated. Final week, the U.S. Supreme Courtroom appeared inclined to uphold the regulation, which was handed in April, regardless of calls from U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and lawmakers to increase the Jan. 19 deadline.
Trump, whose inauguration takes place the day after the regulation goes into impact, has stated he ought to have time after taking workplace to pursue a “political resolution” to the problem.
“Our leadership team remains laser-focused on planning for various scenarios and continuing to plan the way forward,” TikTok stated within the memo.
“The bill is not written in a way that impacts the entities through which you are employed, only the US user experience,” the corporate stated, including that it’s going to proceed to navigate the state of affairs to guard workers and the greater than 170 million TikTok customers in america.
If the court docket doesn’t block the regulation by Sunday, new TikTok downloads on Apple or Google app shops could be banned however current customers may proceed to entry the app for a while.
The platform’s providers would degrade and ultimately cease working as a result of different corporations could be barred from offering help to TikTok.
