META’S COLD CUT$

New layoffs include staff on maternity leave

Meta employees caught in the Facebook owner’s latest round of layoffs are venting online — with more than one griping about getting a pink slip while on maternity leave.

Mark Zuckerberg’s social media giant revealed plans this week to lay off an additional 10,000 employees — expanding a companywide culling that began with roughly 11,000 cuts last November.

Sara Schneider — one of the workers axed as part of CEO Zuckerberg’s costcutting “year of efficiency” — had worked as a recruiter for Meta since January 2020, according to her LinkedIn account.

“Unfortunately, my maternity leave was cut short at Meta due to the brutal Meta Layoffs. I spent an amazing 3 years at a company that had so many memories and worked with the best teams and incredible people,” Schneider wrote in a viral LinkedIn post. “This layoff was not performance based.”

Schneider’s post revealed that she had “suffered from an almost fatal post-partum hemorrhage 8 hours after giving birth.”

“Although incredibly traumatic, I know I was kept alive for a reason. It gives me perspective that I have a purpose, and the hills and valleys of life are just that — temporary,” she wrote.

Another recruiter, Yevette Solmoro, said she also was laid off while on maternity leave after a fiveyear stint at Meta.

“It’s an exceptionally hard pill to swallow given that this happened during my maternity leave so as one can imagine, I’m still processing what this might mean for my family,” Solmoro wrote on LinkedIn.

“Nonetheless, as I reflect on my time at Meta, I’m incredibly grateful for the years spent there and to have achieved major milestones both personally and professionally,” she added.

Zuckerberg confirmed the sweeping cuts in a memo to staffers this week also on Meta’s website.

“Over the next couple of months, org leaders will announce restructuring plans focused on flattening our orgs, canceling lower priority projects, and reducing our hiring rates,” Zuckerberg wrote.

Meta didn’t respond to a request for comment.

Laid-off Meta staff, including Yevette Solmoro (right), cut during maternity leave, are griping about “brutal” layoffs during CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s (left) “year of efficiency.”