TikTok is cutting hundreds of jobs at its operations and marketing departments, according to two people employees. This is in line with efforts by parent company ByteDance since late 2022 to restructure its businesses and a response to the divesture of TikTok in the United States.

The lay-offs, which were announced internally earlier this week, are expected to affect an undisclosed portion of the roughly 1,000 jobs globally at those two departments. The number of job cuts would be in the hundreds, with the global user operations team to be disbanded, the people with knowledge of the matter. .

The US Department of Justice and Bytedance spent a rare moment unified on Friday when the duo asked for a fast-tracked court schedule for the Chinese short video apps divest or ban case. Eight content creators, also petitioned the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to make its decision by December 6, in time for a Supreme Court review filing deadline – setting an expectation the result, whatever it may be, will be challenged.

ByteDance and content creators argue that “a ‘qualified divestiture’ of TikTok as defined in the statute is not commercially, technologically, or legally feasible” and that the petitioners will “face irreparable harm from a ban of the TikTok platform in the United States.” Further, it alleges that the ban violates the First Amendment right of the content creators.

Other arguments for a speedy court resolution are that “the Act is subject to substantial challenge” and “the public at large has a significant interest in the prompt disposition of this matter.”

The proposed schedule requests oral arguments be held in September of this year. They’ve asked the court to respond to the request by the end of May.

The prohibition of the app is set to begin on January 19, 2025, 270 days after enactment. China’s Ministry of Commerce has repeatedly said that it would oppose a forced sale of TikTok.