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Meta won a legal victory on Wednesday against a former employee who published an explosive and revealing memory, as a referee temporarily prohibited the author from promoting or distributing more copies.
Sarah Wynn-Williams launched last week “careless people: a warning story of power, greed and idealism”, a book that describes a series of incendiary accusations of sexual harassment and other inappropriate behaviors by the high executives during their mandate in the company. Meta pursued arbitration, arguing that the book is prohibited under a contract not to detect the despair he signed as an employee of global issues.
During an emergency hearing on Wednesday, the referee, Nicholas Gowen, discovered that Meta had provided sufficient reasons for Mrs. Wynn-Williams to have violated her contract, according to a legal presentation published by Meta. The two parties will now begin private arbitration.
In addition to stopping the promotions and sales of books, Mrs. Wynn-Williams must refrain from participating or “amplify more derogatory, critical or harmful comments,” according to the presentation. You must also retract all derogatory previous comments “to the extent that your control.”
The presentation does not limit the editor, Flatiron Books, or his parent company, Macmillan, of the continuous publication of the memoirs, said a spokeswoman for Macmillan, and added that the company will continue to promote the book.
“We are horrified by the tactics of the finish line to silence our author through the use of an indiccription clause in a compensation agreement,” said spokeswoman Marlena Bittner. “The book went through an exhaustive process of editing and research, and we continue to publish important books such as this.”
Goal has vehemently denied accusations in the book.
The book is a “mixture of outdated and previously informed claims about the company and false accusations about our executives,” said a goal spokesman Andy Stone, in a statement. Mrs. Wynn-Williams was fired for low performance, he added, and an investigation at that time determined that “she made deceptive and unfounded accusations of harassment.”
A spokesman for Mrs. Wynn-Williams, who worked on what was later called facebook from 2011 to 2017, did not comment.
The measure to publish the presentation of arbitration is one of the most forceful public repudiations of the revealing memoirs of a former employee, several of which have been published in the last two decades.
The executive goal also responded online to the claims of Mrs. Wynn-Williams, calling most of them false exaggerated or false.
It is not clear if the attempts to recover the book of Mrs. Wynn-Williams will be successful. In 2023, the National Board of Labor Relations ruled that it is generally illegal for companies to offer compensation agreements that prohibit workers from making potentially derogatory statements about former employers, including discussion of sexual harassment or accusations of sexual aggression.
In a shareholder goal report in 2022, the company's board of directors said that employees did not remain silent about harassment or discrimination, “and that the company” strictly reprisals against any staff “for talking about these issues.
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