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26 Meta Employees File Lawsuit Alleging AI-Driven Layoff Selection Targets Workers on Medical and Parental Leave

26 Meta Employees File Lawsuit Alleging AI-Driven Layoff Selection Targets Workers on Medical and Parental Leave

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July 16th, 2026

26 Meta Employees File Lawsuit Alleging AI-Driven Layoff Selection Targets Workers on Medical and Parental Leave

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Twenty-six employees of Meta have filed a lawsuit against the company, alleging that it utilised an artificial intelligence system to select individuals for dismissal and unjustly targeted those on medical, parental, or family leave.

Meta社の従業員26名が同社を相手取り人工知能システムを活用して解雇対象者を選別し、医療休暇、育児休暇、または家族休暇を取得中の従業員を不当に標的にしたと主張する訴訟を提起した

The employees in question are among the approximately 8,000 individualsroughly 10% of the total workforcewhom Meta announced it would lay off in May.

当該従業員らMeta5月解雇発表した約8,000名全従業員約10%)に該当する。

The complaint, filed late Monday evening in the federal court in Oakland, California, alleges that the company employed a panoply of methodsincluding an internal AI system, keystroke and activity monitoring data, an AI token usage dashboard, and algorithmic performance rankingsto select those targeted for termination.

カリフォルニア州オークランド連邦裁判所月曜夜遅く提出された訴状は同社内部AIシステムキーストロークやアクティビティ監視データAIトークン使用ダッシュボードアルゴリズムによる業績ランキングといった手法駆使して解雇対象者選定した主張している

The complaint asserts that many of these scores and evaluations are, by design, incapable of accruing for employees on protected medical or family leave, or for those whose performance has declined due to a disability.

訴状はこれらのスコアや評価の多くが設計上保護された医療・家族休暇中の従業員や、障害により業績が低下している従業員には蓄積され得ないと主張している

Meta, it is alleged, failed to account for protected leave when evaluating employee scores and did not suspend its systems to conduct a neutral review of the individualized leave and reasonable accommodations mandated by law.

Metaは従業員のスコアを評価する際に保護休暇を考慮せず、「法律で要求される個別化された休暇や合理的配慮に対して中立的な審査を実施するためにシステムを停止しなかった」という。

The present complaint alleges that employees on protected medical or family leave were disproportionately selected for dismissal.

本件訴状は保護された医療・家族休暇を取得中の従業員が不均衡に解雇対象として選定された主張する

All twenty-six anonymous employees named in the lawsuit had either taken protected leave or had applied for or received reasonable accommodations for disabilities.

訴訟に名を連ねる匿名従業員26名の全員が、保護休暇を取得したか、障害に対する合理的配慮を申請または受領していた

Although all have received termination notices, they remain employed by Meta, with their departures scheduled to commence on July 22.

全員が解雇通知を受領しているものの依然としてMetaに雇用されており退職は7月22日から開始される予定である

Many of the employees named in the lawsuit had taken maternity or parental leave, during which they did not work, resulting in a decline in their measured performance.

訴訟に名を連ねる従業員の多く妊娠休暇または育児休暇を取得しておりその期間中就労せず測定される業績が低下していた

Other employees had taken medical leave, and one of them had disclosed a 'serious health condition and disability' that had been certified by Meta's own healthcare provider.

他の従業員医療休暇を取得しそのうちの一人Meta自身の医療提供者によって承認された深刻な健康状態と障害」を開示していた

However, according to the complaint, this individual was warned by their manager that 'taking that leave would make them subject to anticipated layoffs' and was pressured into forgoing the leave.

しかしながら訴状によれば同氏マネージャーからその休暇を取得すれば予想される解雇の対象となる」と警告され休暇取得を断念するよう圧力をかけられたという。

Meta failed to provide reasonable accommodations for this individual's disability.

Meta同氏の障害に対する合理的配慮を提供しなかった

In a statement, Meta asserted that these allegations are "utterly unfounded and devoid of factual basis; personnel management and organisational decisions were executed by human beings, not by artificial intelligence."

Metaは声明の中でこれらの主張には根拠が全くなく事実に基づいていない人材管理や組織上の決定は人工知能ではなく人間によって遂行されたと述べている

Approximately half of the plaintiffs had taken leave for reasons related to caregiving or pregnancy.

原告の約半数は、介護または妊娠関連の理由により休暇取得していた

The breakdown consists of eight women who took prenatal, postnatal, or pregnancy-related leave, four men who took childcare leave, and one woman who took family care leave followed by bereavement leave.

その内訳は、産前産後・妊娠関連休暇取得した女性8名育児休暇を取得した男性4名そして家族介護休暇その後の忌引き休暇を取得した女性1名である

This complaint asserts violations of multiple state and federal statutes, including but not limited to the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, and the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act.

本訴状は家族医療休暇法アメリカ障害者法妊娠差別禁止法妊娠労働者公平法をはじめとする複数の州法および連邦法に対する違反を主張するものである。

Furthermore, the complaint also references 'disparate impact liability.'

また訴状は「不均一な影響(ディスパレート・インパクト)責任にも言及している

This is a long-standing civil rights concept that the administration of President Donald Trump had been moving to abandon.

これはドナルド・トランプ大統領の政権放棄を進めた長年の公民権概念である。

Disparate impact, as codified under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, is the legal doctrine whereby a facially neutral policy or practice may be deemed discriminatory if it imposes a disproportionate burden on workers belonging to a protected class, and the policy or practice cannot be demonstrated to be a business necessity.

1964年公民権法第7編に規定される不均一な影響とは、表面上中立的な方針や慣行が、保護クラスに属する労働者に対して不均衡な負担を課し、かつ当該方針や慣行が業務上必要不可欠であると立証されない場合に、差別的とみなされ得るという法理である。

The Trump administration directed federal agencies to deprioritise the enforcement of disparate impact liability, contending that its application undermines 'meritocracy' and fosters the presumption that all racial and gender imbalances in the workforce stem from discrimination.

トランプ政権は連邦諸機関に対し不均一な影響責任の執行を優先順位の低位に置くよう指示し、その活用が「メリトクラシー」を毀損し労働力における人種的・性別的不均衡のすべてが差別に起因するという前提を助長すると主張している。

As a result of this directive, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has withdrawn discrimination lawsuits targeting certain workers.

この指令により雇用機会均等委員会(EEOC)は一部の労働者を対象とした差別訴訟を取り下げている

However, the lawsuit against Meta starkly illustrates the reality that, despite the Trump administration's attempts to impede enforcement, corporations remain vulnerable to disparate-impact litigation in the age of AI.

しかしMetaに対する訴訟は、トランプ政権による執行阻止の試みにもかかわらずAI時代において企業が不均一な影響訴訟に対して脆弱であり続けるという現実如実に示している

Workers retain the capacity to initiate lawsuits independently should the EEOC dismiss their claims, and multiple state statutes explicitly prohibit disparate-impact discrimination.

労働者は、EEOCが申し立てを却下した場合自ら訴訟を提起することが可能であり複数の州法不均一な影響差別明確に禁止している

In the Meta lawsuit, the plaintiff's legal team contends that the company's "algorithmic screening process, by systematically recording absences as performance decrements, exerts a markedly disproportionate impact on women compared to men."

メタ訴訟において原告側弁護団は、同社「アルゴリズムによる選別プロセスが、欠勤業績低下として系統的に記録することで、男性よりも女性著しく不均衡な影響及ぼしている」と主張している

The attorneys assert that this disparity stems from the tendency of women to disproportionately take pregnancy and caregiving leave.

弁護士は、この不均衡女性妊娠および介護休暇不釣り合いに取得する傾向起因する述べている

The complaint cites Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits disparate impact in employment, as well as the 1971 Supreme Court ruling that established that legal doctrine.

訴状は、雇用における不均一な影響禁ずる公民権法第7編ならびにその法理確立した1971年の最高裁判所判決引用している

In a statement, the plaintiff's legal counsel contends that the sole objective of this litigation is to preserve the employment relationship until the conclusion of arbitration proceedings.

原告側弁護士声明において本訴訟唯一の目的は、仲裁手続きが完了するまで雇用状態を維持することにあると主張している

The rationale is that, "Once resignation is finalized, the resulting damages become irreversible: the loss of employer-subsidized health insurance during pregnancy, the postpartum recovery period, or periods of active medical treatment; the forfeiture of accrued leave entitlements; the confiscation of unvested stock options; and adverse repercussions on immigration status."

その根拠として、「一旦退職が確定すればその損害不可逆的なものとなる妊娠中産後回復期あるいは活発な医療治療を受けている期間における雇用者補助健康保険の喪失有期休暇権の消滅未確定株式の没収さらには移民ステータスへの悪影響が生じる」からである。

The Associated Press's reporting on women's workforce participation receives financial support from Pivotal Ventures.

AP通信による女性の労働力参加に関する報道は、Pivotal Venturesからの財政的支援を受けている

The AP bears sole responsibility for all content.

AP全内容に対し単独で責任を負う。

The AP's standards for collaboration with philanthropic organisations, a list of its supporters, and the areas of funding are available for verification on AP.org.

AP慈善団体との協力基準支援者一覧、ならびに資金提供対象分野は、AP.orgにて確認することができる

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