Forty-three Facebook content moderators in Kenya who were laid off in January will sue Meta for unfair dismissal.
In a statement on their behalf, the 43 said they are suing the social media firm for sacking the entire workforce.
“In January, 260 content moderators working at Facebook’s moderation hub in Nairobi, Kenya, were told that they would be made redundant by Sama, the outsourcing firm that has run the office since 2019,” the statement read.
“Overnight, these moderators doing critical safety work for East and South Africa lost their jobs.
“In the biggest legal challenge yet to Meta’s African operations, 43 moderators at Facebook’s Nairobi moderation hub are suing the social media firm and its outsourcers for sacking the entire workforce — and for blacklisting all the laid-off workers.”
Meta is seeking to slash its workforce by around a quarter within six months as the tech sector endures bumpy times with Facebook, which became Meta in late 2021, notably battling a slowdown in online advertising.
