Terrible Company Treats Employees Terribly on a Global Scale
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A Kenyan judge on Monday rejected Meta’s attempt to have its name struck from a lawsuit alleging widespread failings in its safety operations in Africa, in a significant blow to Facebook’s parent company.
The ruling means Meta will be “significantly subjected to a court of law in the global south” for the first time in its history, according to Amnesty International.
The lawsuit alleges that Meta and its local outsourcing partner Sama are responsible for multiple violations of the Kenyan constitution, including union-busting and worker exploitation. Those alleged abuses undermined the platform’s safety efforts targeted at millions of people across Africa, lawyers argue.
The lawsuit was filed by Daniel Motaung, a former Facebook content moderator for Sama in Kenya, who says he and his colleagues suffered severe post-traumatic stress disorder after being exposed on the job to graphically violent images and videos. Motaung alleges he was unlawfully dismissed after leading an effort to unionize his colleagues for better pay and working conditions—in events that were first reported by TIME last year.
Meta’s lawyers had argued that because Meta does not formally operate in Kenya, the country’s legal system lacked the proper jurisdiction to hear the case.
This is exactly what I am talking about when I talk about holding corporations accountable for their supply chains and contractors. Meta (LOL) argues based on the usual abortion of American jurisprudence that their obvious bullshit should protect them. Kenya says, yeah no I can see right through this. It can be done here and it must be done.