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Kenya judge finds Meta is not in contempt of court

Kenya judge finds Meta is not in contempt of court

A Kenyan judge found Facebook's parent company Meta was not in contempt of court for failing to pay dozens of content moderators that a contractor laid off. Labour judge Mathews Nduma Nderi said Meta did not "deliberately and contemptuously" breach a court order requiring it to pay wages of hundreds of Facebook content moderators. "They did various things which they thought were lawful in trying to deal with their situation but we did not find that what they did amounted to contempt," Nderi said. This year, 184 moderators sued Meta and two contractors, saying their union organising efforts had cost them…
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Court rules Meta can be sued in Kenya over alleged unlawful redundancies

Court rules Meta can be sued in Kenya over alleged unlawful redundancies

A Kenyan judge ruled that Facebook's parent company Meta could be sued in Kenya after 43 moderators at its Nairobi hub last month filed a lawsuit against the group and its local partner Sama for unfair termination. In response, Judge Matthews Nduma issued an interim injunction against Meta and Sama preventing them from terminating the moderators' contracts, pending a judgment on the legality of their redundancy. "The court finds that this court has jurisdiction to determine the matter of alleged unlawful and unfair termination of employment on grounds of redundancy," Nduma said on Thursday. The moderators in the petition - who are…
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Kenyan judge temporarily blocks mass layoff of Facebook moderators

Kenyan judge temporarily blocks mass layoff of Facebook moderators

A Kenyan judge temporarily blocked the mass redundancy of some 260 Facebook content moderators working for an outsourcing company contracted by the social media site's parent company Meta, court documents show. Judge Matthews Nduma issued an interim injunction against Meta and the Kenya-based outsourcing firm Sama, preventing them from terminating the content moderators' contracts at the end of March, pending a judgement on the legality of their redundancy. Last week 43 moderators at Facebook's Nairobi moderation hub filed a lawsuit against the social media company and Sama for unlawful redundancy. The 43 applicants say they lost their jobs with Sama for organising…
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Parliament confirms Kenya 1st female chief justice

Parliament confirms Kenya 1st female chief justice

DUNCAN MIRIRI KENYAN judge Martha Koome has defended dissidents and helped to write women's rights into the constitution - now parliament has confirmed her to be the first female chief justice in a country where the role is particularly sensitive. A child of subsistence farmers, she was chosen by a judicial panel in preference to the lawyer who argued President Uhuru Kenyatta's case in a 2017 battle with the Supreme Court that she will now head. Kenyatta will swear her into office in coming days after parliament voted to approve her nomination on Wednesday. That makes her likely to be…
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Kenyan judge rules against closure of two refugee camps

Kenyan judge rules against closure of two refugee camps

A Kenyan judge ruled yesterday against the closure of two refugee camps hosting hundreds of thousands of people mainly from neighbouring Somalia, according to a copy of the court order seen by Reuters. Two weeks ago the country's interior minister, Fred Matiang'i, announced the government's intention to shut the camps and gave the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) two weeks to present a plan to do so, adding that there was no room for further talks on the issue. The ruling blocks the closure for 30 days. It originated from a petition filed by a local politician challenging a move to…
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