{"id":11865,"date":"2023-10-16T16:37:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T14:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/16\/metas-settlement-talks-with-kenyan-content-moderators-break-down\/"},"modified":"2023-10-16T16:37:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T14:37:48","slug":"metas-settlement-talks-with-kenyan-content-moderators-break-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/16\/metas-settlement-talks-with-kenyan-content-moderators-break-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta\u2019s settlement talks with Kenyan content moderators break down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook parent company and two subcontractors face court hearing over unfair dismissal allegations<\/p>\n<p>Settlement talks have collapsed between Facebook\u2019s parent company, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/meta\">Meta<\/a>, and Kenyan content moderators over a lawsuit alleging unfair dismissal, a tech rights group working with the plaintiffs has said.<\/p>\n<p>The 184 moderators sued Meta and two subcontractors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/aug\/16\/sama-ceo-regrets-firm-took-on-facebook-moderation-work-kenya-staff-allege-exposure-graphic-content\">earlier this year<\/a> after they allegedly lost their jobs with one of the subcontractors, Sama, for organising a union. They say they were then blacklisted from applying for the same roles at a second firm, Majorel, after Facebook changed contractors.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/oct\/16\/meta-settlement-talks-with-kenyan-content-moderators-break-down-facebook\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7e9542203a84d01d56618b83cefaa3d04d2ceb93\/0_367_5500_3300\/master\/5500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=154f3ff4697508c3626d03cccb6fd122\" title=\"Meta\u2019s settlement talks with Kenyan content moderators break down\" \/>Facebook parent company and two subcontractors face court hearing over unfair dismissal allegations<br \/>\nSettlement talks have collapsed between Facebook\u2019s parent company, Meta, and Kenyan content moderators over a lawsuit alleging unfair dismissal, a tech rights group working with the plaintiffs has said.<br \/>\nThe 184 moderators sued Meta and two subcontractors earlier this year after they allegedly lost their jobs with one of the subcontractors, Sama, for organising a union. They say they were then blacklisted from applying for the same roles at a second firm, Majorel, after Facebook changed contractors. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook parent company and two subcontractors face court hearing over unfair dismissal allegations Settlement talks have collapsed between Facebook\u2019s parent company, Meta, and Kenyan content moderators over a lawsuit alleging unfair dismissal, a tech rights group working with the plaintiffs has said. The 184 moderators sued Meta and two subcontractors earlier this year after they &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/16\/metas-settlement-talks-with-kenyan-content-moderators-break-down\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meta\u2019s settlement talks with Kenyan content moderators break down<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11865"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}