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26 Meta employees filed a lawsuit, claiming that AI chose workers on medical or parental leave for layoffs.

26 Meta employees filed a lawsuit, claiming that AI chose workers on medical or parental leave for layoffs.

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July 16th, 2026

26 Meta employees filed a lawsuit, claiming that AI chose workers on medical or parental leave for layoffs.

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๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ English

26 Meta employees filed a lawsuit against the company.

26๋ช…์˜ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€ ์ง์›๋“ค์ด ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์ƒ๋Œ€๋กœ ์†Œ์†ก์„ ์ œ๊ธฐํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

They claim that Meta treated them unfairly when using AI to choose who to fire.

์ด๋“ค์€ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€๊ฐ€ ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ด ํ•ด๊ณ  ๋Œ€์ƒ์„ ์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ๋ถ€๋‹นํ•จ์„ ๊ฒช์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

According to the lawsuit, Meta selected employees on parental or medical leave for layoffs.

์†Œ์†ก์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, ๋ฉ”ํƒ€๋Š” ์œก์•„ํœด์ง์ด๋‚˜ ์˜๋ฃŒ ํœด๊ฐ€ ์ค‘์ธ ์ง์›๋“ค์„ ํ•ด๊ณ  ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ณจ๋ž์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The plaintiffs say Meta used an AI-based method to choose who to fire.

์›๊ณ ๋“ค์€ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€๊ฐ€ AI ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์˜ ํ•ด๊ณ  ์„ ์ • ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

They claim this method worked against employees who were on leave.

์ด ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด ํœด๊ฐ€ ์ค‘์ธ ์ง์›๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋ถˆ๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ž‘์šฉํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์ฃผ์žฅ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The lawsuit says Meta violated federal and state laws.

์†Œ์†ก์€ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€๊ฐ€ ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•๊ณผ ์ฃผ๋ฒ•์„ ์œ„๋ฐ˜ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ง€์ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The employees who filed the lawsuit claim that Meta used discriminatory firing practices.

์†Œ์†ก์„ ์ œ๊ธฐํ•œ ์ง์›๋“ค์€ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€๊ฐ€ ์ฐจ๋ณ„์ ์ธ ํ•ด๊ณ  ๊ด€ํ–‰์„ ํŽผ์ณค๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

They say the company gave them disadvantages because they took vacation.

์ด๋“ค์€ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ํœด๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์„ ์ด์œ ๋กœ ๋ถˆ์ด์ต์„ ์คฌ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Meta has not yet stated an official position on this lawsuit.

๋ฉ”ํƒ€๋Š” ์ด๋ฒˆ ์†Œ์†ก์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์•„์ง ๊ณต์‹ ์ž…์žฅ์„ ๋ฐํžˆ์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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