Negotiations between Kenyan workers and a technological company appear to have collapsed.
Reuters first reported that the negotiations by employees of a Kenyan company contracted by the multinational tech company, Meta, seem to have hit a snag.
The individuals, who are drawn from across the continent, had sued the tech giant complaining of unfair dismissal.
Initially, the parties involved seemed to be making strides in the negotiations after an agreement to make an out-of-court settlement was reached.
"The respondents were buying time and not being genuine. We kept waiting for them to participate ... only for them to keep asking for an extension of time and then come back every time to refuse to take accountability," read part of the statement in part.
The company in question is also working with both TikTok and OpenAI to better their technological systems in serving their users.
In March 2022, some of the workers attached to the company accused the multinationals of providing brutal working conditions at the company that was described as a 'sweatshop'.
The company had employed nearly 200 individuals who were tasked with watching 'videos of murders, rapes, suicides, and child sexual abuse.'
After viewing the videos and photos, the employees censored the content by removing or hiding the banned content before it was shared widely on the site.
Some of the employees had told the publication that they suffered 'mental trauma, intimidation, and alleged suppression of the right to unionise.'
After the initial complaint, some of the workers received a Ksh20,000 raise, which represented a jump of between 30 per cent and 50 per cent for the employees.
Before the review, the employees were the lowest paid employees under Meta, Facebook's parent company anywhere in the world.
