{"id":157125,"date":"2023-02-06T05:22:18","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T11:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/facebook-parent-company-meta-loses-bid-to-terminate-case-in-kenya"},"modified":"2023-02-06T05:22:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T11:22:18","slug":"facebook-parent-company-meta-loses-bid-to-terminate-case-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/facebook-parent-company-meta-loses-bid-to-terminate-case-in-kenya","title":{"rendered":"Facebook parent company Meta loses bid to terminate case in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/facebook-parent-company-meta-loses-bid-to-terminate-case-in-kenya2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the court gagged the petitioner against prosecuting the suit \u201cin other forums\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Meta Platforms Inc. (FB.O), the owner of Facebook, wanted court to throw out the suit arguing that it cannot be tried in Kenya. The company said that the local Employment and Labour Relations Court has no jurisdiction to hear the suit lodged by Daniel Motaung\u2019, a South African national working in Nairobi.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>By Joseph Wangui.<\/p>\n<p>Court Reporter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the same time, the court gagged the petitioner against prosecuting the suit \u201cin other forums\u201d. Meta Platforms Inc. (FB.O), the owner of Facebook, wanted court to throw out the suit arguing that it cannot be tried in Kenya. The company said that the local Employment and Labour Relations Court has no jurisdiction to hear [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}