Frustrated former Twitter staff had to wait 2 months after being laid off to get...

• Some Twitter staff who were laid off in November finally got their separation agreements on Saturday.

• Twitter said that it could have sent the paperwork "sooner" but was delayed by a court order.

• The email didn't provide details, but may relate to one of the lawsuits about how Elon Musk handled layoffs.

Laid-off Twitter staff had to anxiously wait for two months to get their severance agreements from the company. When they did finally come through, Twitter blamed the delay on staff taking legal action related to their terminations.

The social-media giant laid off thousands of workers on November 4. Twitter finally followed through with their separation contracts on Saturday in emails from administrative services firm CPT Group.

In a follow-up email sent by Twitter's HR team, which Insider has viewed, the company said: "Please note that we would have sent you these agreements sooner, but a court order obtained by plaintiffs' attorneys resulted in this delay."

"Thank you for your patience," the email continued.

The email did not specify the details of the court order, which appears to have come down in one of the lawsuits that Twitter is facing in California federal court over Elon Musk's handling of layoffs since he took over the platform in October.

In a suit filed by a group of employees in varying stages of layoffs, a California federal court agreed that Twitter should alert employees receiving severance agreements about relevant ongoing lawsuits.

That suit was filed by plaintiffs including Emmanuel Cornet, who Twitter laid off in early November, and others who are officially being laid off this month and next.

The California federal court finalized the language of the notice on December 20, according to the court docket, which attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan, who is representing plaintiffs in the suit, told Insider was enough time for Twitter to have sent it sooner.

Some former Twitter workers told Insider's Kali Hays that they were disappointed by the severance the company ultimately offered them. The contracts offer one month of severance pay in return for former workers agreeing not to participate in lawsuits against Twitter or speak publicly about the company.