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26 Meta workers sue, claiming AI layoffs unfairly targeted those on medical or parental leave

26 Meta workers sue, claiming AI layoffs unfairly targeted those on medical or parental leave

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July 16th, 2026

26 Meta workers sue, claiming AI layoffs unfairly targeted those on medical or parental leave

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A group of 26 Meta employees has sued the company.

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

They claim it used artificial intelligence systems to select people for layoffs.

๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ด ํ•ด๊ณ  ๋Œ€์ƒ์„ ์„ ์ •ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The system disproportionately targeted workers on medical, parental or family leave, they say.

์ด ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์ด ์˜๋ฃŒ, ์œก์•„ ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฐ€์กฑ ํœด๊ฐ€ ์ค‘์ธ ์ง์›๋“ค์„ ๋ถˆ๊ท ํ˜•์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ‘œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ผ์•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Oakland, California.

์ด ์†Œ์†ก์€ ์บ˜๋ฆฌํฌ๋‹ˆ์•„ ์˜คํด๋žœ๋“œ์— ์žˆ๋Š” ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ ๋ฒ•์›์— ์ œ๊ธฐ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

It says Meta used internal AI tools, keystroke monitoring, and algorithm-assisted performance rankings to decide who would be laid off.

์†Œ์žฅ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, ๋ฉ”ํƒ€๋Š” ๋‚ด๋ถ€ AI ๋„๊ตฌ, ํ‚ค์ŠคํŠธ๋กœํฌ ๋ชจ๋‹ˆํ„ฐ๋ง, ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ์„ฑ๊ณผ ์ˆœ์œ„๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ด ํ•ด๊ณ  ๋Œ€์ƒ์„ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

The plaintiffs argue that employees on protected leave could not earn the same scores as active workers.

์›๊ณ ๋“ค์€ ๋ณดํ˜ธ๋œ ํœด๊ฐ€ ์ค‘์ธ ์ง์›์ด ํ™œ๋™ ์ค‘์ธ ์ง์›๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Meta did not account for leave when using these scores, the lawsuit claims.

์†Œ์žฅ์€ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€๊ฐ€ ์ด ์ ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ๋•Œ ํœด๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Many of the 26 employees took pregnancy or parental leave.

26๋ช…์˜ ์ง์› ์ค‘ ๋‹ค์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์ž„์‹  ๋˜๋Š” ์œก์•„ ํœด๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Others took medical leave for disabilities.

๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ง์›๋“ค์€ ์žฅ์• ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์˜๋ฃŒ ํœด๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

One employee said a manager warned him that taking approved leave would lead to layoff selection.

ํ•œ ์ง์›์€ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ์ž๊ฐ€ ์Šน์ธ๋œ ํœด๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋ฉด ํ•ด๊ณ  ๋Œ€์ƒ์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

About half the plaintiffs took leave for caregiving or pregnancy-related reasons.

์›๊ณ  ์ค‘ ์•ฝ ์ ˆ๋ฐ˜์€ ๋Œ๋ด„ ๋˜๋Š” ์ž„์‹  ๊ด€๋ จ ์ด์œ ๋กœ ํœด๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Meta said the claims lack merit and that people, not AI, made the decisions.

๋ฉ”ํƒ€๋Š” ์ฃผ์žฅ์— ๊ทผ๊ฑฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ถ€์กฑํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๊ฒฐ์ •์€ AI๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹Œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ๋‚ด๋ ธ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The lawsuit alleges violations of several federal laws, including the Family and Medical Leave Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act.

์ด ์†Œ์†ก์€ ๊ฐ€์กฑ ๋ฐ ์˜๋ฃŒ ํœด๊ฐ€๋ฒ•๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์žฅ์• ์ธ๋ฒ• ๋“ฑ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ์œ„๋ฐ˜ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ•œ๋‹ค.

It also cites "disparate impact," a legal concept that the Trump administration has moved to abandon.

๋˜ํ•œ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ํ–‰์ •๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ํ๊ธฐํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ๋ฒ•์  ๊ฐœ๋…์ธ '์ฐจ๋ณ„์  ์˜ํ–ฅ'์„ ์ธ์šฉํ•œ๋‹ค.

The plaintiffs' lawyers said they seek to keep the workers employed pending arbitration.

์›๊ณ  ์ธก ๋ณ€ํ˜ธ์‚ฌ๋“ค์€ ์ค‘์žฌ๊ฐ€ ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๋Š” ๋™์•ˆ ์ง์›๋“ค์˜ ๊ณ ์šฉ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ  ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

They argue that the layoffs would cause irreversible harm.

๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ํ•ด๊ณ ๊ฐ€ ๋Œ์ดํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ํ”ผํ•ด๋ฅผ ์ดˆ๋ž˜ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ•œ๋‹ค.

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