- The workers were part of the 11,000 employees laid off by Meta in November, but are getting fewer weeks of severance and insurance than CEO Mark Zuckerberg promised.The employees said they were not contract workers and instead were categorized as short-term employees that received all the benefits of full-time employees, including insurance and retirement funds but not corporate stock packages.In a letter sent to Meta employees during the layoffs and posted online, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company would pay severance of 16 weeks of base pay plus two additional weeks for every year of service, with no cap.Zuckerberg added that Meta would cover the cost of healthcare for people and their families for six months.On Nov. 16, the impacted workers sent a letter to Zuckerberg and other Meta executives, including Meta's head of people Lori Goler and chief operating officer Javier Olivan, informing Meta management about their severance situation and asking for help resolving the issue."