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26 Meta employees sue, saying AI chose workers on medical and parental leave for layoffs.

26 Meta employees sue, saying AI chose workers on medical and parental leave for layoffs.

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July 16th, 2026

26 Meta employees sue, saying AI chose workers on medical and parental leave for layoffs.

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26 Meta workers sued the company.

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

They say Meta used AI to choose people to fire.

๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€๊ฐ€ ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ(AI)์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ด ํ•ด๊ณ ํ•  ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์„ ๊ณจ๋ž๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

They claim they were treated unfairly in this process.

์ด ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ๋ถ€๋‹นํ•จ์„ ๊ฒช์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

According to the lawsuit, Meta chose workers on parental or medical leave for firing.

์†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 a computer method to pick people to fire.

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

They say this method hurt workers. The workers 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 broke federal and state laws.

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

Workers filed the lawsuit. They say Meta used unfair 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 a disadvantage for taking leave.

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

Meta has not yet given an official statement about this lawsuit.

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

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