A laid-off Twitter employee reportedly lost her health insurance a week before her child was born

• An ex-Twitter employee reportedly lost her company health insurance a week before giving birth.
• Bim Ali was weeks away from beginning her maternity leave when she was laid off, CNN reported.

A woman who was laid off by Twitter before she went on maternity leave reportedly lost her company health insurance a week before her child was born.

Bim Ali, who worked as a program manager on the Redbird core technologies team, was pregnant when she was laid off during Elon Musk's first round of mass cuts in November, CNN reported.

Her last official day employed by Twitter was January 4, just one week before her child was born, according to the news outlet. The date also marked the end of her access to the health insurance that the company provided for both her and her family, per CNN.

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In an email sent on November 4, Musk told laid-off staff they would receive severance and a separation agreement, he then followed the email with a tweet saying that all the former employees were offered three months' severance. Several employees reported delays with the severance agreements.

CNN reported Ali was among 1,500 former Twitter employees now taking legal action against the company.

Neither Ali nor representatives for Twitter responded immediately to Insider's request for comment, made outside US business hours.

Ali told CNN she had been spent the last two months with her newborn rather than looking for another job. "But I'm not being financially supported like I had planned," she said. "We have to make some way of staying afloat."

Despite the months of back-and-forth before Musk's takeover and highly publicized layoff rumors, Ali said she opted to keep working at the company. She told the news outlet she was "really happy" in her role and her pregnancy meant that leaving "didn't even make sense on any level."

Multiple employees on parental leave have lost their jobs in recent tech layoffs. Rachel Bonn, a former Twitter employee, was eight months pregnant when she said access to her work laptop was suddenly cut off amid the November layoffs.