A case in which the Labour Court stopped the mass sacking of Facebook content moderators will be heard today.
Last month, the Employment and Labour Relations Court stopped Social media giant Meta Platforms from terminating the contracts of 39 Facebook content moderators.
Justice Nduma Nderi certified the matter filed by the 39 as urgent.
Nderi also stopped Meta Platforms, INC Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, and Samasource Kenya EPZ Limited from varying the contractual terms of Facebook content moderators in a manner unfavourable to them pending the hearing of the application.
The orders were issued after the 39 moderators argued that they were unlawfully terminated.
A redundancy notice was issued to the creators on January 18, 2023, which led them to subsequently sue Meta and its Kenyan-based content moderation partners Sama and Majorel.
Justice Nderi further said Meta Platforms INC and Meta Platforms Ireland Limited from subcontracting content moderators to serve the Eastern and Southern African region through Majorel Kenya Limited to do the work currently being done by the moderators engaged through Samasource Kenya EPZ Limited.
